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	Home Biography CV Dean's Office Speeches Strategic Plan Media/Press FIND: People Places Events SEARCH: Rutgers Web Sites Rutgers INFOdex				Carmen Twillie Ambar is the ninth woman to lead the nation’s largest public undergraduate women’s college. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Ambar was assistant dean for graduate education at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, overseeing the operation of its three graduate programs. In this position she was responsible for many key administrative and academic functions, including curriculum development, budget allocation, management of joint degree programs, supervision of the graduate registrar and staff, development and implementation of academic rules and regulations, and academic support and advising programs for students. She also directed the school’s summer program for undergraduate students of color, hiring staff and designing its programmatic aspects. As an attorney, Ambar served as an assistant corporation counsel in the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, 1994-98, and participated in several high-profile cases in which she defended the city against constitutional challenges to legislative regulations and also prosecuted criminal violations of the administrative code. In the early 1990s, she served as a program assistant for Newark Fighting Back Inc., co-writing a successful $3-million proposal to develop a comprehensive approach to reducing the demand for illicit drugs and alcohol in the city of Newark. She also aided in the conceptualization and implementation of more than 75 programs, including drug treatment for women and children, and community policing. Ambar also served as an intern in the governor’s office in her native Arkansas, where she prepared memoranda on various issues for then-Governor Bill Clinton. Ambar is a 1994 graduate of both the Columbia School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she received a master’s in public affairs. She received a bachelor of science degree in Foreign Service in 1990 from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also studied at L’Institut de Science Politique in Paris and the Université de Caen in Caen, France, and was an exchange student in Kobe, Japan. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and is a member the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.