Fayetteville State University announced Monday the hiring of a provost, a position considered vitally important by the school’s new chancellor.
Monica Terrell Leach will serve as FSU’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs starting June 1, according to a statement released by the university. She is currently senior associate vice chancellor for enrollment management and academic affairs at North Carolina Central University.
The FSU board of trustees met in closed session for about 14 minutes during a special meeting on Friday to discuss a personnel matter. The board took no action in open session, and a university spokesman said the board is not required to announce what it discussed in closed session.
Editor s note: This story has been updated to include the title of Dr. Algeania Warren Freeman and to clarify the organizers of Monday s protest said they protesting the process more than the person who University of North Carolina s Board of Governors selected to lead Fayetteville State University.
A week before a new chancellor is scheduled to start at Fayetteville State University, more than 25 of the school s alumni marched to protest how he was selected.
Darrell Allison was elected by the University of North Carolina System board of governors to become the 12th chancellor to serve Fayetteville’s historically Black university. He starts next Monday.
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Darrell Allison is qualified to lead FSU. Whatever his affiliations, they do not put him at odds with FSU s historical, educational and cultural traditions.
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