 For NPR News in the Twin Cities, I'm Perry Finnelli. 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 controversy started when a faculty search committee offered the job to a scholar 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.