Anne Gilmore, the plaintiff who this week agreed to a $350,000 settlement with the University of Colorado, will receive a fresh diploma signed by President Hank Brown, replacing her original document with former President Elizabeth Hoffman's signature on it.

Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the university system, confirmed that Brown will be signing the new diploma at Gilmore's request.

"He hasn't yet, but intends to," McConnellogue said Friday. "It was an innocuous request."

Peggy Jessel, Gilmore's attorney, did not return phone calls from the Camera.

Gilmore graduated from CU before Hoffman's 2005 resignation following a tenure marred by controversies. Among them was the football-recruiting scandal, touched off by claims from Gilmore and another woman, Lisa Simpson, that lax oversight and a hostile campus environment led to their sexual assaults by athletes and recruits at an off-campus party in 2001.

The university this week settled the Title IX discrimination lawsuit brought by Gilmore and Simpson, who was awarded $2.5 million. The deal also requires CU to add a part-time position to the Office of Victim's Assistance and contract with a Title IX adviser to consult with campus leaders on issues including gender discrimination and sexual assault.

Simpson transferred to the University of Denver — after CU officials wouldn't let her enroll at the Denver campus under an alias — and graduated with honors, Kim Hult, her attorney, said.

Brown met with Simpson and her family, Hult said, but neither of the plaintiffs ever met with Hoffman.

In March 2005, Hoffman announced her resignation amid a series of scandals, indicating that they undercut her effectiveness at the state Capitol.

The Boulder campus had been the focus of national controversies involving athletic recruiting and spending, binge drinking and professor Ward Churchill, whose essay on the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to sympathize with terrorists.

Hoffman also famously refused to condemn the use of the "c-word" in a deposition after former CU place-kicker and alleged rape victim Katie Hnida said she was called the slur on the football field. The CU president said she had "heard it used as a term of endearment."

Last year, Hoffman was appointed executive vice president and provost at Iowa State University in Ames. She could not be reached Friday.

Brown, who took over as head of the university system in August 2005, has said he will be stepping down early next year. He has said his goal has been to restore public trust in the flagship school after a series of scandals.

Contact Camera Staff Writer Brittany Anas at 303-473-1132 or anasb@dailycamera.com.