Ashley Judd is going back to school. The 41-year-old actress — an avid humanitarian — has enrolled in Harvard University’s Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) Program, according to her publicist.

The program is designed to increase the skills and knowledge of well established and high performing professionals, who are looking to enhance their public service careers or leadership roles, The Harvard Crimson reports.

The Republicans aren’t going to like this.

Actress Ashley Judd is heading up a Defenders of Wildlife ad campaign blasting Governor Sarah Palin for her support of the aerial killing of wolves and bears in Alaska.

In a public servce announcement released this week, Ashley accuses Madame Governor of proposing a $150 bounty for the severed legs of wolves and encourages viewers to help “stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery.”

Wow, Ashley’s more hardcore than a PETA protester!

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Last February, 38 year old star Ashley Judd endured over a month’s-long stay at a Texas treatment center to overcome serious issues she’s grappled with her entire life.

Depression, isolation and co-dependent relationships are but a few of the problems Judd underwent treatment for, she admitted to Glamour magazine.

“I was in so much pain,” she says, “I needed help.”

Help came, and now she says she’s able to take life one day a time. A quotation attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Judd says these words allow her to take responsbility for her own feelings.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Follow up on Judd’s emotional roller coaster ride here.