总理

芝加哥城市学院校长

 

Chancellor Juan Salgado has focused his career on improving education and economic opportunities for residents in low-income communities.

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.

As Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, he oversees Chicago’s community college system, serving nearly 70,000 students across seven colleges, 75 percent of whom are Black and Latinx students.

在他的领导下，芝加哥城市学院的学生毕业率达到了有史以来的最高水平，与芝加哥公立学校建立了前所未有的系统级合作伙伴关系，启动了“新开始”，这是有史以来第一个债务减免计划，完成了新的两个主要的最先进的设施，重新启动了为学生提供支持的筹款活动，以及专注于学生成果公平的校园具体计划，以及其他努力。

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。