Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

===Provost promotion===
At Stanford, in 1992, Rice volunteered to serve on the search committee to replace outgoing president [[Donald Kennedy]]. The committee ultimately recommended [[Gerhard Casper]], the provost of the University of Chicago. Casper met Rice during this search, and was so impressed that in 1993, he appointed her as Stanford's [[Provost (education)|provost]], the chief budget and academic officer of the university in 1993<ref name = "Baker, 20080403"/> and she also was granted [[tenure]] and became full [[professor]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Condoleezza Rice |url=https://www.forbes.com/2001/10/15/crice.html |magazine=[[Forbes]] |date=October 18, 2001 |access-date=October 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007071435/http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/15/crice.html |archive-date=October 7, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> Rice was the first female, first African-American, and youngest provost in Stanford's history.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stanford's New Provost Is First Woman, Black to Hold Position|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-20-mn-37447-story.html|newspaper=LA Times|date=May 20, 1993|access-date=November 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=John Hennessy, dean of the School of Engineering, named next provost|url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/april14/hennessy-414.html|work=Stanford News|date=April 14, 1999|access-date=November 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Condoleezza Rice: U.S. national security adviser |url=http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/13.rice/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020223173824/http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/13.rice/index.html|archive-date=February 23, 2002|work=CNN|date=February 2002 |access-date=October 27, 2008}}</ref> She was also named a [[senior fellow]] of the [[Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies|Institute for International Studies]], and a senior fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution.

Former Stanford president Gerhard Casper said the university was "most fortunate in persuading someone of Professor Rice's exceptional talents and proven ability in critical situations to take on this task. Everything she has done, she has done well; I have every confidence that she will continue that record as provost."<ref>{{cite press release |title=Casper selects Condoleezza Rice to be next Stanford provost |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |date=May 19, 1993 |url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/93/930519Arc3267.html |access-date=October 27, 2008 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022945/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/93/930519Arc3267.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Acknowledging Rice's unique character, Casper told ''The New Yorker'' in 2002 that it "would be disingenuous for me to say that the fact that she was a woman, the fact that she was black and the fact that she was young weren't in my mind."<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Nicholas |last=Lemann |date=October 14, 2002 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |title=Without a Doubt |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/10/14/without-a-doubt-2 |url-access=subscription |page=181 |access-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022946/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/10/14/without-a-doubt-2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=diplomatic>{{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/16/local/me-rice16/2 |title=Not Always Diplomatic in Her First Major Post |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 16, 2005 |first=Mark Z. |last=Barabak |access-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410111510/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/16/local/me-rice16/2 |archive-date=April 10, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As Stanford's provost, Rice was responsible for managing the university's multibillion-dollar budget. The school at that time was running a deficit of $20 million. When Rice took office, she promised that the budget would be balanced within "two years." Coit Blacker, Stanford's deputy director of the Institute for International Studies, said there "was a sort of conventional wisdom that said it couldn't be done ... that [the deficit] was structural, that we just had to live with it." Two years later, Rice announced that the deficit had been eliminated and the university was holding a record surplus of over $14.5 million.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Robinson |first=James |date=June 9, 1999 |title=Velvet-glove forcefulness: Seven years of provostial challenges and achievements |journal=Stanford Report |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/june9/rice-69.html |access-date=October 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231012218/http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/june9/rice-69.html |archive-date=December 31, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rice drew protests when, as the provost, she departed from the practice of applying affirmative action to tenure decisions and unsuccessfully sought to consolidate the university's ethnic community centers.<ref name=diplomatic />