PENDLETON â The Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education accepted President Dennis Bailey-Fougnier s resignation Thursday, Feb. 11, marking an abrupt end to the brief tenure of the college s top employee.
At a special meeting, board President Jane Hill made a brief statement after the vote, saying that Bailey-Fougnier wrote in his resignation letter that he was leaving the college to focus on his health.
The board then unanimously voted to appoint John Fields, the college s vice president of instruction, as interim president.
A veteran community college administrator, Bailey-Fougnier was hired in March 2019.