She so impressed President Bush that he introduced her to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] as the one who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union."[http://dir.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/20/rice/index.html]
After working for Bush senior she returned to Stanford in 1991 and in . In 1993 she was appointed Stanford Provost. She was , becoming the youngest appointment person in the position as well as first woman and first non-white. She held the position until 1999.
The White House's official biographical note on Rice states that she was a member of the board of directors for the [[Chevron Corporation]], the boards of the [[Charles Schwab Corporation]], the [[William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]], the [[University of Notre Dame]], the International Advisory Council of [[J.P. Morgan]] and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html]