总理
胡安·萨尔加多
总理胡安·萨尔加多(Juan Salgado)的职业生涯一直致力于改善低收入社区居民的教育和经济机会。
From 2001 to 2017, he served as CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino, where he worked to empower residents of Chicago’s Southwest Side through education, citizenship, and skill-building programs that led to sustainable employment and economic stability.
作为芝加哥城市学院的校长,他监管着芝加哥的社区学院系统,为七所学院的近7万名学生提供服务,其中75%是黑人和拉丁裔学生。
Under his leadership, City Colleges of Chicago has seen an increase in student graduation rates to the highest level on record, an unprecedented systems-level partnership with the Chicago Public Schools, the launch of Fresh Start, a first-ever debt forgiveness program, the completion of new two major state of the art facilities, a re-energizing of fundraising for student supports, and campus specific plans focused on equity in student outcomes, among other efforts.
Chancellor Salgado is a community college graduate himself, earning an associate degree from Moraine Valley Community College, prior to earning a Bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
萨尔加多总理的工作得到了全国的认可,包括2015年的麦克阿瑟奖。在他的公民义务中,他是奥巴马基金会的董事会成员。