Department of State and International Communication Agency Nomination of Alice Stone Ilchman To Be an Assistant Secretary of State and an Associate Director of the Agency.

The President today announced that he will nominate Alice Stone Ilchman, of Wellesley, Mass., to be an Assistant Secretary of State. She would replace Joseph Duffey, and her area of responsibility would be educational and cultural affairs. The President also announced that he will nominate Ilchman to be an Associate Director of the International Communication Agency.

Ilchman was born April 18, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1957, an M.P.A. from Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, in 1958, and a Ph.D. from London School of Economics in 1965.

From 1961 to 1964, Ilchman was a faculty member at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass. From 1966 to 1968 and in 1969-70, she was program director at the Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and a lecturer and political scientist at Berkeley. In 1968-69 she was director of Berkeley's Professional Studies Program in India.

From 1971 to 1973, Ilchman was a lecturer in the division of policy planning and administration of the School of Education at Berkeley. Since 1973 she has been dean of the college and professor of economics and education at Wellesley College.