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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A11 New BMCC president got start in community college By KATHY ANEY STAFF WRITER Plenty of successful people attended community college. The list includes George Lucas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman. The ﬁ rst woman to command a shut- tle mission, Eileen Collins, started her rise in community college and so did Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ﬁ rst Hispanic woman elected to Congress. Among them is Dennis Bai- ley-Fougnier, who this month became the seventh president of Blue Mountain Community College. Bailey-Fougnier, the ﬁ rst in his family to go beyond high school, attended community college in his native Colorado near the farm where he grew up. Eventually transferring to Uni- versity of Oregon, he said he didn’t set out to be a college president, instead studying public policy and historic preservation at the School of Architecture. To earn money, he worked in the school’s admissions ofﬁ ce, leading student tours and talking to high school seniors about going to college. The part-time gig changed his trajectory. “I tell people I’m still doing my work study job,” he said. The job evolved into full-time admissions work for three colleges in Kansas, Virginia and Oregon. In 1991, he left the University of Ore- gon to become recruitment coor- Staﬀ photo by E.J. Harris Dennis Bailey-Fougnier is the seventh president of Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton. dinator for Portland Community College. The move to a community college brought him full circle. “Within days I felt like this is where I ﬁ t,” Bailey-Fougnier said. “This is where I belong.” After PCC, he worked as chief executive at Western Colorado Community College. He started his ﬁ rst ofﬁ cial day of work at BMCC on May 1. On May 14, Bailey-Fougnier sat at a small table in his ofﬁ ce near a sliding glass door that revealed a swath of his new city and a patio that a family of California quail visits each day. Behind his wooden desk, a huge welcome-to-campus card signed by student ambassa- dors and Associated Student Gov- ernment ofﬁ cers adorned the wall. The president sat back in his chair and tried to verbalize why he loves community colleges so much. He decided to tell a story. One day at PCC, Bailey-Fougnier said, he stepped out of his ofﬁ ce and didn’t notice a woman walking by. They collided and he caught her before she fell. “She was crying,” Bai- ley-Fougnier recalled. “I said, ‘Oh, my god, I’m sorry.’” The woman, a non-traditional student with several children, rushed to assure Bailey-Fougnier that he wasn’t the cause of her tears. “Come to ﬁ nd out her husband had left her and cleaned out the bank account,” he said. “She didn’t have anything.” A neighbor had urged her to check out the community college. At the time, PCC had a program designed to get displaced house- wives back into the workforce and Bailey-Fougnier connected her with the people running the six- week program. The woman contin- ued on in college, eventually earn- ing her doctorate at Portland State. Periodically, she returned to Bai- ley-Fougnier to give him enthusi- astic updates. He said the story illustrates the type of people who attend commu- nity colleges. “I love watching people who value education and don’t feel like it’s owed to them,” he said. “Every little step is a big win. I watch them go from not believing in them- selves to having a huge amount of conﬁ dence.” In these early days at BMCC, Bailey-Fougnier isn’t spend- ing much time in his big, light- drenched ofﬁ ce. He has visited most of the BMCC centers around Northeast Oregon and had sit- downs with community members, employers, city and county leaders, college employees and students. The next day brought more of the same. He started the day at the monthly 7 a.m. legisla- tive video session with Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena. From there, Bailey-Fougnier moved to a morn- ing-long gathering of his vice pres- idents and then attended two other meetings before heading to Salem for two days of the Oregon Presi- dents Council, a meeting of all 17 Oregon community college presi- dents. In Salem, he will also meet past president Camille Preus, who is now executive director of the Oregon Community College Association. “I’m in the ﬁ rehose stage,” he said. “There’s so much coming at me. I’ve had a lot of really good conversations.” In describing his leadership style, he said he prefers a consen- sus form of decision making if possible. “Ultimately the buck stops with me, but I want a campus environ- ment where we are transparent and open with everyone from students to faculty to administrators when we’re talking about issues,” Bai- ley-Fougnier said. “I never want to leave people out of decisions.” The new president is living in a trailer park while he looks for a house, bunking in his dad’s ﬁ fth- wheel. He hopes to ﬁ nd a place before his snowbird father picks up the ﬁ fth-wheel and heads south for the winter. Bailey-Fougnier’s partner, Mark Mauceri, soon will join him in Pendleton. Mauceri has actu- ally spent more time in the city than Bailey-Fougnier as he served as project manager for the build of the Wildhorse Resort golf course in 1996 and 1997. 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