F.T. Norton
Calling for the revocation of Darrell Allison’s appointment as chancellor of Fayetteville State University, the school s Faculty Senate voted Friday to declare that the search for a chancellor had failed, and demanded that interim Chancellor Peggy Valentine be installed to the position.
The Faculty Senate, made up of elected representatives from all branches of the school, met in open session Friday to consider a number of resolutions concerning the growing controversy surrounding Allison’s recent appointment to the position.
Among the issues causing concern for the Faculty Senate are allegations that Allison “lacks the requisite academic experience necessary to serve as the leader of an academic institution;” that he was not recommended by the search committee for the position; and that, as a member of the University University of North Carolina Board of Governors from which he resigned to pursue the FSU chancellorship he was involved in the selection