Elizabeth Hoffman (professor)
- Elizabeth Hoffman (professor)
Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman is executive vice president and provost at Iowa State University. Hoffman was named to this position in September 2006. [http://www.provost.iastate.edu/bio/ehoffman.html]
Hoffman is the former president of the University of Colorado System, a position to which she was appointed on September 1, 2000. Hoffman has a doctoral degree in economics from CalTech and another in history from the University of Pennsylvania. [http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/retreatfall00/index.html] She was a professor prior to moving into academic administration. Several months after assuming the CU presidency, Hoffman helped to obtain one of the largest gifts ever to an American public university, a $250 million grant to establish the CU Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.
In May 2001, Hoffman launched "CU Vision 2010", a strategic road map for the university. She since has become known for her efforts to create a "University Without Walls" at CU and for the rapid growth of the University's medical education and biotech research center in Aurora, Colo.
Hoffman's presidency was marred by controversies. [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2005-03-07-colorado-hoffman_x.htm] On March 7 2005, Hoffman, "announced her resignation... amid a football recruiting scandal and an uproar over a professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to a notorious Nazi". [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149641,00.html]
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