Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

===Education===
In 1967, the family moved to Denver, Colorado. She attended [[St. Mary's Academy (Cherry Hills Village)|St. Mary's Academy]], an all-girls Catholic high school in [[Cherry Hills Village, Colorado]], and graduated at age 16 in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography of Condoleezza Rice, Former US Secretary of State |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-condoleezza-rice-4779269 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=ThoughtCo |language=en}}</ref> Rice enrolled at the University of Denver, where her father worked at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-08-27 |title=Rice receives outstanding alumna award from DU school of international studies |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2010/08/27/rice-receives-outstanding-alumna-award-from-du-school-of-international-studies/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-10-19 |title=Condoleezza Rice tells 'Post' of family ties to PM |url=https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/books/condoleezza-rice-tells-post-of-family-ties-to-pm |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}</ref>

Rice initially majored in music, and after her sophomore year, she went to the [[Aspen Music Festival and School]]. There, she later said, she met students of greater talent than herself, and she doubted her career prospects as a pianist. She began to consider an alternative major.<ref name="episode"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://magazine.du.edu/alumni/facing-forward-looking-back/ |first=Tamara |last=Chapman |title=Facing Forward, Looking Back |work=University of Denver Magazine |date=Summer 2010 |access-date=September 1, 2010 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022945/https://magazine-archive.du.edu/alumni/facing-forward-looking-back/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She attended an International Politics course taught by [[Josef Korbel]], which sparked her interest in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[international relations]]. Rice later described Korbel (who is the father of [[Madeleine Albright]], then a future U.S. Secretary of State), as a central figure in her life.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Dobbs |author-link=Michael Dobbs |title=Josef Korbel's Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy; Professor Mentored Daughter Albright and Student Rice |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/12/28/josef-korbels-enduring-foreign-policy-legacy/8d31958e-07e6-4aff-a3a5-0426f487c9fe/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=December 28, 2000 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527091615/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/12/28/josef-korbels-enduring-foreign-policy-legacy/8d31958e-07e6-4aff-a3a5-0426f487c9fe/ |archive-date=May 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1974, at age 19, Rice was inducted into [[Phi Beta Kappa]] society, and was awarded a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree ''[[cum laude]]'' in political science by the University of Denver. While at the University of Denver she was a member of [[Alpha Chi Omega]], Gamma Delta chapter.<ref name="test">{{cite web |url=http://www.uscaxo.com/dynamic/?Action=show_custom_content&pageid=1688 |title=Famous Alumnae |work=USC Alpha Chi Omega |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017051717/http://www.uscaxo.com/dynamic/?Action=show_custom_content&pageid=1688 |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |access-date=September 12, 2018 }}</ref> She obtained an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1975. She first worked in the [[State Department]] in 1977, during the [[Carter administration]], as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She also studied Russian at [[Moscow State University]] in the summer of 1979, and interned with the [[RAND Corporation]] in Santa Monica, California.<ref name="ordinarypeople">{{cite book|last=Rice|first=Condoleezza|title=Extraordinary Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family|publisher=[[Three Rivers Press]]|year=2010|pages=184–8|isbn=978-0-307-88847-1}}</ref> In 1981, at age 26, she received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in political science from the [[Josef Korbel School of International Studies]] at the University of Denver. Her dissertation centered on military policy and politics in what was then the communist state of [[History of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Condoleezza |last=Rice |title=The Politics of Client Command: Party-Military Relations in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1975. |series=PhD dissertation |publisher=University of Denver |year=1981 |oclc=51308999 |url=http://130.253.4.23/record=b2587932~S3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927073911/http://130.253.4.23/record=b2587932~S3 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2013 }}</ref>

From 1980 to 1981, she was a fellow at Stanford University's Arms Control and Disarmament Program, having won a [[Ford Foundation]] Dual Expertise Fellowship in [[Soviet Studies]] and [[International Security]].<ref name="ordinarypeople" /> Rice was one of only four women – along with [[Janne E. Nolan]], Cindy Roberts, and [[Gloria Duffy]] – studying international security at Stanford on fellowships at the time.<ref name="Janne Nolan obituary">{{cite news |last1=Stout |first1=David |title=Janne E. Nolan, Principled Adviser on World Affairs, Is Dead at 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/politics/janne-e-nolan-dead.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 8, 2019 |access-date=21 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="CISAC 25th Anniversary Celebration">{{cite web |last1=Conteras |first1=Nancy |title=Transcript of CISAC 25th Anniversary Celebration |url=https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/evnts/media/transcript25th.pdf |publisher=Stanford CISAC |access-date=5 May 2021 |date=29 May 2009 |quote=Chip actively brought women into the discussion, starting with what have been called the "4 fellowettes" here at CISAC: Condi Rice, Janne Nolan, Cindy Roberts and me [Gloria Duffy], in 1980-82.}}</ref> Her fellowship at Stanford began her academic affiliation with the university and time in Northern California.