Forbes.com: CMC President Matt Gianneschi discusses student success

By Alison Griffin, Forbes.com contributor

In this Forbes.com article published on June 25, 2026 and written by Isaacson School Senior Fellow Alison Griffin, CMC President Matt Gianneschi discusses the imperatives around student success.  

According to the article, "For institutional leaders, the implication runs in two directions: graduate more students, and graduate them from programs that actually pay off. Matt Gianneschi, president of Colorado Mountain College, has spent nearly a decade applying both principles — using labor market data to add capacity in fields where graduates thrive and to redesign or phase out programs that don't — and is preparing to invite a handful of institutions to join CMC in a coalition built on the same approach. He frames the work as moral as much as strategic.

'I believe in my soul that it is imperative to never allow a student to leave a college or university worse off than when they started,' Gianneschi says. 'That result is inexcusable — and preventable.'"

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