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Roger Dooley is the owner and board chair of CC. Sadly, not the case. My partners and I sold the business in 2008 to Hobsons, part of the UK's Daily Mail Group. For a few years, I served there as VP of Digital Marketing and had CC as part of my responsibility. Over time, my role transitioned to that of a consultant.
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During the latter period, the existing CC software, an older and heavily modified version of vBulletin, was in need of a major upgrade for security and user experience reasons. I was inclined to get current with vBulletin and continually add/change features to optimize it for CC’s mission. (A few may remember our custom-coded “visit reports” feature - it still survives here, sort of.)
Eventually, management decided to outsource the CC forum to a software company that handled hosting, development, security and software updates, etc. To be fair to the managers who made that decision, the software provider promised to implement specific features after the conversion that were on the list but couldn’t be finished in time. They also promised to support custom modifications in the future.
Unfortunately, after the conversion, the user experience became mostly frozen in time. Even small modifications were incredibly expensive and often couldn’t even be scheduled. Hobsons had capable developers, but they couldn’t touch the code any more. Nor could the forum admins change much with the limited control panel. The forum “worked” but couldn’t continuously evolve and improve to meet the needs of the CC community.
Due to changing priorities in its core business, in 2016 Hobsons sold CC to Road Trip Nation. Now, apparently, CC is part of the Strada Education Network. I’ve had no input at all in the post-Hobsons era.
An optimistic view: When a change in a forum layout can generate more than a thousand angry posts in a short time, it means that people still care. 
And, there’s continuity from CC’s earliest days with @DaveBerry and @SallyRubenstone still contributing, not to mention many dedicated members who have been helping those new to the college process for many years. That CC has survived since 2001 testifies to the value it delivers. Keep up the good work, everyone!