Allan M. Hoffman is an educator and health services executive with over 40 years of extensive executive level experience leading and managing higher educational organizations. His experience includes serving as president, CEO, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean and tenured professor. He served as founding president and CEO of a proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences which was dedicated to serving the needs of underserved populations and ameliorating health disparities.
In addition to his front-line experience working in higher education, Dr. Hoffman has researched and published on key issues in higher education leadership focusing on innovations within higher education, leading, managing and total quality improvement. He has provided consulting services to schools, colleges, and business organizations in multinational settings. His most recent work, Innovations in Higher Education, is part of the Higher Education Series of the American Council on Education. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and leadership, served as a coach and mentor, particularly to under-represent persons and women interested in entering higher education leadership roles.
Hoffman is fully committed and values Social Justice and to ending bias, bigotry and racism. While serving as dean, he was the founder and first Director of the Center for the Prevention of Community Violence at Des Moines University. The Center was established to be a research, programmatic, and community resource. He received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for his work in violence prevention and an Award from the National Office of National Drug Control Policy for the work of the Center.
He is recognized as an expert on issues associated with violence and violence prevention and has been a frequent guest on radio, television and quoted in news articles concerning violence issues.
He has published on violence prevention issues and provided volunteer service in the US, Puerto Rico, Russia and multi-national settings on projects relating to violence prevention. His most recent experience was volunteering with Empower Tanzania -and the Maasai Tribe in Tanzania, East Africa on a project to prevent Gender Based Violence. His publication on Domestic Violence: A Global View (Greenwood Publishers) was featured by the United Nations during the global initiative on preventing violence against women and children. Dr. Hoffman is the recipient of numerous awards and honors associated with his teaching and his efforts to prevent violence and resolve conflict creatively.
Allan received two M.A. degrees and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University where he was named a Kellogg Fellow. He is a Certified Health Education Specialist(ret). He and his wife, Annie, have four children and five grandchildren.
His favorite quote: “if you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a tent with mosquito.”
M.A. '73 | Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Ed.D. '75 | Philosophy and the Social Sciences