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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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