Fayetteville State University Names Scott Krawczyk Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Respected scholar and retired general joins the university after serving as a senior academic executive at the University of the District of Columbia.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison announced today that Scott Krawczyk, Ph.D., will serve as the university's next provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Krawczyk currently serves as a senior academic administrator at the University of the District of Columbia, pairing his higher education leadership with a distinguished background as a retired U.S. Army brigadier general. He will assume his new duties on July 1.
As the Chief Academic Officer, he will provide strategic leadership and institutional vision for the university’s academic enterprise, advancing excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, innovation, and student success. He will lead efforts to strengthen academic quality, expand research and creative activity, enhance faculty achievement and development, and promote student-centered initiatives that improve graduation rates and overall institutional effectiveness.
"I am excited to have Dr. Krawczyk join FSU at a time when we are gaining momentum and keenly focused on advancing transformational institutional goals," Allison said. “His wealth of experience leading complex organizations within higher education and the military makes him an exceptional fit for our campus. He will be an invaluable asset to our leadership team as we begin this next chapter.”
In this role, Krawczyk will serve on the Cabinet, reporting directly to the Chancellor. He will work collaboratively with faculty, staff, administrators, and partners to support academic innovation and continuous improvement initiatives aligned with the university’s mission and long-term priorities. He will also oversee policies and practices that promote academic integrity, shared governance, faculty engagement, and operational excellence while maximizing institutional performance and responsiveness within an evolving higher education landscape.
The scope of his leadership encompasses the university’s four academic colleges, sponsored research, library services, and institutional effectiveness, research, and planning units.
In his current role as senior associate chief academic officer and tenured professor of English at UDC, Krawczyk leads academic programming spanning 84 graduate and undergraduate options. From 2022 to 2025, he directed the university’s regional institutional self-study, which earned seven formal commendations and 10 recognitions from the peer evaluation team. His office managed the implementation of the CourseLeaf scheduling system and oversaw the development of 15 high-demand academic programs. Krawczyk also co-chaired the strategic budgeting committee and established 17 credit-for-prior-learning pathways to support workforce expansion.
Previously, he served as dean of the Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Long Island University Brooklyn. In that position, he managed an annual budget of $25.5 million and improved institutional efficiency by leading curriculum reforms that reduced core graduation requirements from 56 to 33 credits. His administrative career also includes serving as director of the federal-state partnership for the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he oversaw compliance and management for a $43 million program budget.
Krawczyk transitioned to civilian academic administration after a distinguished military career in the U.S. Army, culminating in his promotion to brigadier general and receipt of the Distinguished Service Medal. He spent more than a decade at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as a professor and chair of the Department of English and Philosophy, leading a department of 50 full-time faculty members. During his tenure at West Point, he also served as a senior member of the academy's Academic Board and raised over $1.2 million in donor support.
His operational assignments included serving as a speechwriter for the Army chief of staff at the Pentagon. Krawczyk also holds deep ties to the local military community, having served as an intelligence officer within the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg. During his 30-year military career, he served in multiple combat deployments. He served as an intelligence officer responsible for a unit of 20,000 soldiers during the Gulf War, earning the Bronze Star. He also deployed in support of Operation Just Cause in Panama and received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. He holds the distinction of being the first English major to graduate from West Point.
An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, Krawczyk earned a Doctor of Philosophy in English language and literature. He earned a Master of Arts from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy. As an active researcher, he co-edited a volume of The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, published by Oxford University Press.
Krawczyk succeeds Sonja M. Brown, Ph.D., who has served as interim provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs since January. Allison expressed his gratitude to Brown for her leadership during the transition period and welcomed Krawczyk to his new position.