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Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman
History and Economics
B.A., Smith College, 1968
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1969
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1972
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1979 |
Elizabeth Hoffman is the Executive Vice President and Provost at Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa. She also holds the title of Professor of Economics with tenure. From 2000 to 2005, Hoffman
served as the 20th President of the University of Colorado (CU) system. As CU President, she worked
extensively with students, faculty, and staff at each of the system's three campuses as well as with
Colorado's business and civic leaders. She also held a tenured faculty position as Professor in the
Department of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and taught in the Graduate School
of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Throughout her career, she held academic and administrative positions at the University of
Florida, Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of Wyoming, and the University of
Arizona. From 1993 to 1997, she served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa
State University, the university to which she recently returned. In 1997, she joined the University
of Illinois at Chicago faculty as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She held
concurrent appointments as professor of economics, history, political science, psychology, and
professor in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. While serving as Provost, Hoffman
managed a $1 billion budget and led the nation's third largest health sciences center, which
included the country's largest medical school.
She has received numerous distinctions, including the Ronald H. Coase Prize for excellence in
the study of law and economics, Colorado Biz magazine's 25 most powerful people (2004), and
recognition as one of 100 women making a difference in Today's Chicago Woman (1999). She has served
on more than 40 academic advisory councils, boards, and committees. She is currently a member of the
Board of Trustees of Marsico Capital Management. Hoffman has authored or co-authored three books
and dozens of articles.
Elizabeth Hoffman was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and received her B.A. in history from
Smith College. She continued studying history at the University of Pennsylvania, earning an M.A. in
1969 and a Ph.D. in 1972. She earned a Ph.D. in economics at the California Institute of Technology
in 1979. Her academic interests include applied microeconomics, experimental economics, public
choice, economic history, law and economics, and public policy.
Hoffman was appointed to the National Science Board in 2002.
August 2008
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