Bush taps Gates for cabinet post.ROBERT GATES MADE A SPLASH WHEN HE entered higher ed in 2002 and made major headlines again when he announced his planned exit. Few college presidents make news around the world, but Gates did when President George W. Bush announced that he wants Gates, leader of Texas A&M University, to replace Donald Rumsfeld as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Gates, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. He reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). , is known for being a dose persona[ friend of the first President Bush and for his record in public service. He joined the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). in 1966 and rose through the ranks to take the helm in 1991. He Led the agency for two years. He also headed all foreign intelligence agencies and served as deputy security advisor to Bush. In landing Gates as president, Texas A&M had a high-profile leader who was comfortable with an international mission and technological advancements, but not one with much higher ed experience. Faculty and administrators were skeptical when he came to campus. Until he become TAMU's president, Gates' only real gig in higher ed was as the TAMU TAMU Texas A&M University TAMU Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University TAMU Tyler Area Macintosh Users (Tyler, Texas) TAMU Tropical Aviation Meteorological Unit interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service The George Bush School of Government and Public Service is a graduate public policy school at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. It is named for former President George H.W. Bush. The Bush School is part of the George Bush Presidential Library complex. from 1999 to 2001. Gates won over the naysayers with his humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and warm personal style. He also shook things up by launching a diversity initiative that targeted minority enrollment without using affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. and for ending a practice that made it easier for the children of alumni to attend TAMU. He started a hiring initiative to add faculty, too, and along the way announced a $1 billion fundraising campaign. |
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