Where is accountability of community colleges’ leadership?

This letter is regarding the May 17 story, “CEOs named for five community colleges.”

David Levinson is pulling $288,354 starting last Thursday. And his automatic bonus will be one year from now?

All the new CEOs will pull in $155,250 each?

May I ask for their job descriptions, and what performance standards for which they will be held accountable? (And please don’t give us the usual gobbledygook/claptrap 1,800 pages of “pie-in-the-sky” nonsense.)

If each of those is truly serious about his/her role, why not OK a $1 a year salary until each has measured up?

OK, as a business consultant, I have the following questions:

1) How will their performance be measured? Regarding Lead Administrator Levinson’s operational issues: Where are the objectives? Are these public with objectives attached? Results expected when and by how much?

Regarding the local workforce/foundation collaboration: Where are the objectives/results expected? Are these public, with standards attached?

This is at a time when almost every business is out of existence?

2) The college administrators and new CEOs are collecting salaries for what duties? What outcomes?

It sounds like another Connecticut boondoggle. (Along with the $2 million on Open Up Connecticut Boston Consulting Group’s fees for which I’d have done it “gratis.”)

To Connecticut State College President Mark Ojakian: I had hopes for your plan. But you are just another pull on the teat of the Connecticut economy.

Michele Mattia Danbury