![]() ![]() Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification. In 1989, she became director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council, and special assistant to President George H.W. In the mid-1980s, Rice spent a period in Washington, D.C., working as an international affairs fellow attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During that time, she also served as the university's chief budget and academic officer. In 1993, Rice became the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University - a post she held for six years. That same year, she joined Stanford University as a political science professor. from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies in 1981. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974, her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and her Ph.D. The only child of a Presbyterian minister and a teacher, Rice grew up surrounded by racism in the segregated South. Rice was born on November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama. Bush, becoming the first African American woman (and woman) to hold the post, and went on to become the first Black woman to serve as U.S. In 2001, Rice was appointed national security adviser by President George W. Condoleezza Rice is the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University. ![]()
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