Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Condoleezza Rice Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001conquered the piano as a young girl and the complicated, controversial field of Soviet military affairs after receiving her Ph.D. Her reputation will turn on how she handles problems from hell like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. 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