JOURNAL / WEEK 4 CONDOLEEZA RICE

Dr Condoleeza Rice was born on November 4th 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she was born into an educated family,her mum was a teacher and her dad a churh pastor.Dr Condoleeza Rice went to the University of Denver at age fifteen and graduated with a degree in Polical Science at age nineteen, she had after school French and piano lessons ,as a fine Pianist ,she originally enrolled as a music student with the intention of embarking on a concert career ,but while at Denver she came under the influence of one Josef Korbel a Czech refugee and father to the first US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.Under his guidance, she became interested in International Relations and the study of the Soviet Union and consequently switched courses.She achieved her master's 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. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C. She is the 66th United States Secretary. Dr Condoleeza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.
In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she was a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1981-1986 (currently the Center for International Security And Cooperation), a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then 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 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California She was rhe first African American female to be appointed as US Secretary of State ,she was also the first to occupy the key post of National Security advisor,she is the most academic member of the Bush foreign affair team and because of her gender,background, and youth,one of the most distinctive.I agree she should be included in the list of the fifty women who have changed the way we live due to her unique achivements in the world of academics and that of politics. For her most significant contribution for instance,she had led the tricky negotiations with Russia over missile defence. During the september 11 2001 attacks in Washington and New York she stood by the side of the President giving advise and support in what was one of the most difficult times in American history .She worked closely with France through the United Nations to persuade Syria to withdraw its military presence in Lebanon.In effect , I would say she is a real role model and inspiration for lots of women of today,especially those with diverse cultural backgrounds.In conclusion ,I feel confident in saying that anything men can do do ,women can also do and even better.