Condoleezza was born as an only child in November 1954. Her parents were John Wesley Jr. and Angelina Ray Rice, who was a minister and a priest, and her mother was a teacher. Condoleezza’s childhood was surrounded by the turbulent times of the 1960s. He was forced to use the storage room for a dressing room, he was not allowed to go to the circus or the play. spared not by the parents, but by the guardians of those things. She recalls that she was also given bad food when she went out to eat.
While he was growing up, his father taught him and his students that they should work twice as hard to progress, and meet the specific conditions of white society, so that they would be twice as good. While the Rice family agreed with the civil rights movement, they did not want to put their daughter in harm’s way.
Education
At the age of 3, Condoleezza was already learning foreign languages which helped her later in life. At 15, he wanted to be a concert musician, although his plans changed so he couldn’t do it alone.
After coming to Denver, Condi went to an all-girls school in 1967: Saint Mary’s Academy. She then took a class in international politics, which was taught by the father of the future Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. This prompted his interest in the Soviet Union.
Then in 1970 he grad and 19th in politics from the University of Denver and got his masters from Notre Dame. She was an intern in the Carter administration in 1977 for the Bureau of Cultural Affairs. In 1981, when Condoleezza was 26, her Ph.D. he got in political science.
Academic Protection
Condi was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 1981 to 1987, when he was promoted to Associate Professor. He had until 1993. In 1992, when Stanford offered a research team to find a replacement for the outgoing president Donald Kennedy. The team consisted of Gerhard Casper from the University of Chicago. He, in turn, was so impressed with her that he appointed her as Stanford’s president from 1993 to 1999. Condoleezza was the first female, first minority and youngest dean in the history of Stanford University.
Stanford was running about $20 million at the time the station was founded. After two years, Stanford was in a surplus of 14 million. In 1986 he began his political career … and the rest, as they say, is history.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/rice-bio.html
