Dropbox is a third party cloud based service that costs the college thousands of dollars in additional monies for expensive and yearly renewed user licenses. Data is stored off-campus in unknown and undisclosed locations. This is a security and data risk. She ignored advice against this move to Dropbox by seasoned IT professionals.
Jill Biden and Tom Perez visited CCC with much fanfare for the DOL grant.
Biden and her entourage were shown old, inoperative G-series HP servers during the visit which were damaged by water and already had insurance claims filed. This is blatant misrepresentation.
No operating equipment actually existed for the DOL program at that time. Pictures of these inoperative servers were taken and posted in publications.
Student record numbers were falsified for the Golden Leaf and DOL programs.
At least one other former employee is willing to talk to the board or any investigators regarding altered student records.
Investigate these incidents.
Ask former retirees and employees why they left a once great place with a pleasant working environment. Fancy buildings don’t make a college complete. Many long term faculty/staff have left in the last two years, does the Board even care?
Ask current employees why morale is so low. Ask them in confidence as most will be
apprehensive to talk for fear of being terminated.
The board is presented an opportunity to investigate and act upon the information above.
I trust the Board will promptly deal with unethical/questionable behavior of Steve Thornburg and Shannon Kennedy at Cleveland Community College thereby negating outside investigations from other agencies.
If the Board condones these activities and deems no action should be taken, then this will be considered grounds to contact whatever investigative agencies are necessary including the media.
The people of Cleveland County, NC need to know what caliber of leadership has been allowed to manage operations at Cleveland Community College in the past few years.
I do know there are others willing to come forward and state what they have witnessed under the management of Shannon Kennedy and Steve Thornburg.
I was employed in the CCC IT Dept. Nov 2006 – June 2016.
Howard Roberts, former CIO and I both resigned 6/16/2016.
Feel free to contact me.
Thank you,
(Name Withheld until later)
