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School leaders must adapt to a media climate that moves faster than officials can react, former University of Colorado President Elizabeth Hoffman recently advised. She spoke publicly for the first time since leaving her job in June, after what she called a "perfect storm" of three major crises at the Colorado school.
Hoffman told the Denver Forum civic group that she listened too closely to lawyers and not enough to PR staff during the sex and alcohol football recruiting scandal at Colorado last year. She also cited blogs as changing the civil landscape "in ten minutes," specifically a report of UC professor Ward Churchill comparing victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to a Nazi official. A third crisis she cited were inordinate struggles to secure state funding.
"I felt that I was called ...