Fred Jerome Gainous is an American academic administrator.
He also served as chancellor of Alabama's community college system from 1988 until 2002.
Gainous was born on July 6, 1947, in Tallahassee, Florida, where he attended Lincoln High School.
After two years teaching high school, he went on for his master's degree at the University of Florida, which he received in agricultural education in 1972.
[4] After about two years, however, the university board of trustees voted to fire him, citing financial troubles,[5] mismanagement of a move of the football program to NCAA Division I-A, and other problems.