Earlier we let you know that noted hand-bra model and erstwhile A-lister Ashley Judd was enrolling in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to pursue its mid-career master of public affairs. While the news of an out-of-work actress turned activist matriculating into a master’s program is hardly noteworthy beyond the Ivy League gossip blog circuit, it got a fair amount of press. And any good star faced with publicity will make a show of ducking it in an effort to live like a normal person. A normal person who didn’t used to make movies, that is.

Judd seems to be nervous about people remembering her in gems like The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Eye of the Beholder, because she’s requested Harvard take additional steps to protect her privacy as a student. MPA program director Robin Engel sent out an e-mail last month detailing what the best university in the country is doing to make Judd feel like one of the little people. Among the efforts are a public block on her registration information, a security officer at program coffee breaks, and directing all calls about the 1990 University of Kentucky graduate to her Hollywood publicist. No word on whether on not they will issue her the same pamphlet the other Harvard graduate students got.

Adopting foreign babies against their parents’ wishes is so aus. Acquiring advanced degrees is what’s in. So to make up for five years out of the spotlight, Ashley Judd is doing just that. It turns out the starlet hasn’t made a memorable movie since Double Jeopardy a decade ago because she’s been busy saving the world from HIV/AIDS and using her hands as a bra.

To certify that she is capable of doing the former professionally, Ms. Judd just enrolled in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for its Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA). Should she actually graduate, Judd will join such notable alumni as Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, and Bill O’Reilly.

Seeing as most of her recent movies have either been released abroad or are just weird, it’s a perfect time for some retraining at the best university in the country. In your eye of newt, Emma Watson.