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Fayetteville State University Chancellor-elect Darrell Allison has pushed back against rumors the school would change its name to the University of North Carolina at Fayetteville. In a Wednesday interview, he said it would not be something he would support unless it came from “internal” stakeholders — the Bronco alumni, students and faculty. “I am an HBCU graduate,” said Allison, who completed his undergraduate work at N.C. Central University in Durham.  He added, “A proud graduate of an HBCU,” placing emphasis on the word “proud.” Allison said if a name change were to be p...

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...