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As with all UNC System chancellors, Allison’s contract provides him the use of a car and residence in addition to his $285,000 per year salary. Allison will officially take the school’s top leadership post on March 15, but Interim Chancellor Dr. Peggy Valentine will need to move out of the house the school keeps for the school’s chancellor before Allison and his family can take residence. Time is also needed  to make any repairs or renovations, Vice Chancellor for for Business and Financ...

From Staff Reports Darrell Allison, a 1990 graduate of A.L. Brown High School, has been named the 12th chancellor of Fayetteville State University, the school announced in a news release. Allison has been serving the University of North Carolina Board of Governors since 2017 after being nominated by UNC System President Peter Hans. He is currently the vice president of governmental affairs and state teams at the American Federation for Children. “Darrell Allison is a creative l...

Darrell T. Allison was noncommittal when asked if he would agree that FSUs new provost would be chosen from finalists selected by a search committee.

Darrell Allison The blowback was swift after the University of North Carolina Board of Governors chose one of its own to be the next chancellor of Fayetteville State University. The boards pick, Darrell Allison, resigned from the board in September to make a bid for the open chancellorship at the historically Black public university. But even before that move, Allison was a divisive figure in North Carolina higher education. He publicly supported a controversial plan to preserve Silent Sam -- a...

The mother-in-law of Fayetteville State University’s chancellor-elect served on the school’s Board of Trustees until the day before he was elected. Darrell T. Allison, who is scheduled to become chancellor at FSU on March 15, is facing questions about how he was chosen for the position. Some FSU alumni are opposing his selection. Brenda Timberlake, who was an FSU trustee and was still listed as one on the school website Wednesday afternoon, was asked during a telephone interview if she is ...

“We’re not going to discuss any confidential details of the search process,” Womble said. Just after Womble made that statement, Augustine said without prompting that support for Allison “was unanimous.” “As a board when we sent all the names up to the system for consideration, we felt very confident,” he said before Womble again interrupted. “You don’t have to talk about that, Mr. Chairman,” he said. When contacted Friday about Augustine’s statement regarding the unanimou...

The UNC System Board of Governors has chosen one of its own former members, Darrell Allison, as the next chancellor of Fayetteville State University.

Allison elected chancellor at Fayetteville State University. February 19, 2021 GMT The Fayetteville Observer reported that Allison was elected Thursday. He had resigned from the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors in September to seek the position. Allison was chosen from about 50 applicants. The selection process took the hiring committee nearly a year to complete because of the coronavirus pandemic. ADVERTISEMENT Allison said during a press conference Thursday that he co...