Alison R. Byerly (born 1961) is an American academic, who is serving as the 12th president of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

[4] Byerly was at Middlebury College in Vermont from 1989, serving as provost and executive Vice President from 2007 to 2012.

[5] Byerly became president of Lafayette College in 2013, and in 2016 launched a 10-year plan to increase the student body by 16 percent, more than double the financial aid budget, and create 40 new faculty positions with a goal of allowing Lafayette to admit more students without regard for their ability to pay.

[7][8] Under Byerly's leadership, Lafayette also launched and completed its largest-ever fund-raising effort,[9] and opened its largest capital project ever, the Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center.

[10] On October 6, 2020, she announced her decision to retire at Lafayette effective the end of the school year.