Henry Cisneros, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will come to Dartmouth tomorrow to discuss the effects of Congress' 1996 budget on the President's national urban policy.
Cisneros will appear as part of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies summer symposium on "Contemporary Issues in Urban America" tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Room 3 of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences.
A Cisneros speech writer said the 48-year-old former San Antonio mayor will discuss the incompatibility of Clinton's policies for dealing with urban problems and the GOP-led House of Representatives fiscal plans for 1996.
"He's going to talk about the President's new urban policy and how you square that with the direction that the House is taking," said a Cisneros speech writer in a phone interview.
"If you take them together and you look at who's being cut, it's the same people, the same communities, over and over again," the speech writer added.
MALS Director Augustus DeMaggio said symposium organizers had been trying to woo Cisneros into coming to Hanover since before the summer, but it was not until last Thursday the Secretary told them his decision to come.
"He is someone at the cutting edge of housing problems," MALS Director Augustus DeMaggio said. "We're just delighted he's taken the time to come and visit us."
Cisneros, the mayor of San Antonio from 1981 to 1989, was appointed to his post by the President in December, 1992.
As America's chief federal housing and economic development official, he is responsible for administering fair housing activities and federally assisted housing and economic development programs.
"I think it will be interesting to hear the solutions -- or at least what someone in the cabinet-level thinks the solutions are -- to our housing problems," DeMaggio said.
Cisneros will be the latest in a long list of Clinton executives who have visited the College in the last year and a half.
Labor Secretary Robert Reich spoke at commencement ceremonies last year, and Health Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala spoke at Convocation ceremonies the following September.
