 The University of Minnesota Board of Regents says it stands behind former interim president Jeff Ettinger's intervention in the hiring of a director of the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The hiring controversy started when a faculty search committee offered the job to scholar Roz Siegel, who is critical of Israel. Some Jewish community advocates asked the school to reconsider the offer. Ettinger paused the search and said it will be redone in the coming years.