Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has accepted an endowed chair as a professor in the School of Foreign Service.
Albright is the recipient of the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy. According to Robert Gallucci, Dean of the School of Foreign Service, the chair was intended for an individual interested in academic enterprise and policy issues.
“From the first conversations of this chair, I said we would be most fortunate if we could attract Madeline Albright,” Gallucci said.
Gallucci said Albright would be the ideal recipient because of her academic credentials, policy experience and success as a professor. Albright is known for wanting to set an example for other women to enter the policy world, according to Gallucci.
Albright will assume the chairship August 1, 2001. According to Gallucci, Albright will not have teaching responsibilities during the first year of her appointment, but will be expected to be on campus for school events. (valium) Beginning in the fall of 2002, Albright will teach a class every semester.
Albright taught at Georgetown as an SFS professor beginning in 1982. She left in 1993 to become the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
“Georgetown has been an important part of my life because it respects education and public service. I am very pleased … to have the opportunity to teach, and be inspired by, inquiring students,” Albright said in a press release.
