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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 Finance Carlton Spellman told board members Tuesday. Fayetteville State University Chancellor-elect Darrel...

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 leader who understands the value of Fayetteville State University to the community, the region, and t...

Darrell T. Allison was noncommittal when asked if he would agree that FSU's 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 board's 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 Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's campus -- after protesters...

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 Darrell Allison’s mother-in-law. “That’s true,” she said. A university spokesman released a...