Celia Elizabeth (Betsy) Hoffman[1] (born November 12, 1946) was executive vice president and provost of Iowa State University from 2007 to 2012,[2] where she remains as professor of economics.
[5] Her mother and aunt married brothers, and she spent her early years living in a large house in Wayne, Pennsylvania,[citation needed] a suburb of Philadelphia, with her grandmother, mother, father, aunt, uncle, sister, and their three double-cousins,[6] before moving to suburban Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
[8] In 1993, Hoffman became dean of the College of liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, where she was also professor of economics and psychology.
These included the university's alleged use of sex and alcohol to recruit football players, an alcohol-related student death at the Boulder campus, and the Ward Churchill essay controversy.
[10][11] When she received a demand from Governor Bill Owens to fire Ward Churchill, she refused on grounds of academic freedom.