From the Des Moines Register's Letters section:
The Register's Oct. 23 front-page article, "ISU's Pick for No. 2 job Stuns Critics in Colorado," is further evidence of how hard it is for a woman in a leadership role. Caught between football economics and the politics of gender diversity, Elizabeth Hoffman pragmatically sided with football and lost her job because of that decision.
Still hounded by her detractors in Colorado, Hoffman is represented as insensitive or unsympathetic to women.
At Iowa State University, however, anyone who remembers her tenure as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences a decade ago knows well that she is committed in a very specific way to the often vague concept of diversity.
She was an excellent dean, prepared to stand behind her decisions and even to discuss them at length with discontented faculty (including me, on one occasion). There is no question that she will be an exceptional provost, and we should pay no attention to those Colorado malcontents who persist in maligning her.
- Neal Bowers, distinguished professor, English
Iowa State University, Ames
Malcontents and detractors like the president of the Boulder chapter of the National Organization for Women?
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