Game Over in Colorado

摘要

In nearly five years as president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman racked up an impressive list of accomplishments. A skillful fund-raiser, she increased the university's endowment by nearly $100 million and established new technology initiatives. Two faculty members each won a Nobel Prize. But that wasn't enough to overcome what one member of Colorado's board of regents described as the "perfect storm" for a 21st-century university administrator: allegations of sexual assault by football players and recruits, and a showdown over free speech. Last week Hoffman decided that calls for her resignation from politicians and editorial writers made it impossible to lobby the legislature for much-needed money, and she quit. "I do not take this step lightly," she told the regents in her resignation letter. "I love CU. I have given it my heart and soul."