Post by Auset on Feb 2, 2005 15:34:44 GMT -5
The first african american female secretary of state.
About Condoleezza Rice: Dr. Condoleezza Rice served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 22, 2001 to January 2005. On November 16, 2004, after Colin Powell resigned as the Secretary of State, President Bush named Rice as Powell’s successor. Dr. Rice's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 2005.
Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1974, at the age of nineteen, she received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Denver. She graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.
In 1981, Rice became a professor of political science at Stanford University. She received two awards for teaching, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (1984) and the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1993). Rice was a Hoover Institute fellow from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1999, she served as Stanford University’s Provost.
She is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and international affairs, and three books, Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984), The Gorbachev Era (1986), and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995).
During the Bush Administration, from 1989 to 1991, Rice served as Director, and later Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
In addition to Rice’s service in the government, she was on numerous boards of directors, including the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, Chevron, the Hewlett Foundation, and Charles Schwab. Rice also co-founded the Center for a New Generation, a support fund for schools, in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California.
About Condoleezza Rice: Dr. Condoleezza Rice served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 22, 2001 to January 2005. On November 16, 2004, after Colin Powell resigned as the Secretary of State, President Bush named Rice as Powell’s successor. Dr. Rice's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 2005.
Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1974, at the age of nineteen, she received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Denver. She graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.
In 1981, Rice became a professor of political science at Stanford University. She received two awards for teaching, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (1984) and the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1993). Rice was a Hoover Institute fellow from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1999, she served as Stanford University’s Provost.
She is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and international affairs, and three books, Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984), The Gorbachev Era (1986), and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995).
During the Bush Administration, from 1989 to 1991, Rice served as Director, and later Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
In addition to Rice’s service in the government, she was on numerous boards of directors, including the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, Chevron, the Hewlett Foundation, and Charles Schwab. Rice also co-founded the Center for a New Generation, a support fund for schools, in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California.
