Denver Post, CO
09-27-06
CU's ex-president Hoffman named Iowa State provost
Ames, Iowa - Former University of Colorado president Betsy Hoffman was
named provost and executive vice president of Iowa State University on
Wednesday.
Hoffman has been an economics professor at CU-Denver's Graduate School of
Public Affairs since she resigned as president in 2005.
She starts in January at ISU, where she was arts and sciences dean from 1993
to 1997. ISU president Gregory Geoffroy chose Hoffman after a nationwide
search that drew more than 100 applicants. He called her "an exceptionally
talented and experienced academic
leader."
Hoffman announced her resignation as CU president in March 2005 amid
controversies involving football recruiting and professor Ward Churchill's essay
comparing some victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to Nazi Adolf
Eichmann.