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Slaughter is currently the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs a the Woodrow Wilson School, where she had been the dean from 2002 to 2009. In a website article about Slaughter,the New American Foundation said,
Having served on the New America board, Slaughter said she has always been a big fan of the organization, but that the idea of taking on another job in Washington, away from her home and tenure in Princeton, was quite daunting when the search committee first approached her. In the end, though, Slaughter says she decided to follow the advice she always offers students: “Do what you want to do.”
Slaughter told staff that she had agreed to be president on one condition: “That we be ambitious.”
She reflected about the differences between academia and government. In the former setting, the highest rewards go to those who can come up with big ideas and have their name attached to them. Conversely, “in Washington, you take big ideas and turn them into bite-sized ideas, and try to convince others that these were their ideas in the first place.”
Before taking the new post, Slaughter will complete a book she's writing about work-family issues, building on the blockbuster cover article she wrote last year for The Atlantic.
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