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Date: March 31, 1999
Cleveland Foundation President to Speak on "Rebuilding America's Cities"
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Steven A. Minter, president and executive director of the Cleveland Foundation and the former undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education, will speak on "Rebuilding America's Cities" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, April 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl One.
Minter, who began his public service career in 1960 as a caseworker in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County Welfare Department, worked his way up through the ranks to become director of that department in 1969. He was appointed commissioner of public welfare for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1970, and returned to Cleveland in 1975 as a program officer for the Cleveland Foundation, the nation's oldest community foundation. He was named its associate director in 1979. Minter took a leave of absence from the foundation in 1980 to become undersecretary of the then newly created U.S. Department in Education, returning to the foundation in 1981. He was appointed its executive director in 1984.
Minter, a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, is or has been involved with a number of professional organizations and boards, among them the American Public Welfare Association, Public/Private Ventures, the Council on Foundations, the Association of Black Foundation Executives, and the United Way. He holds a B.A. in education from Baldwin-Wallace College and a master's degree in social administration from the Mandel School at Case Western Reserve University. His many honors and awards include six honorary doctorates.
His talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, Isles Inc., and the Princeton Area Community Foundation.