City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado

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

 

As Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, he oversees Chicago’s community college system, serving more than 70,000 students across seven colleges, more than three-quarters of whom are Black or Latine students. 

 

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. 

 

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, with honorary degrees from DePaul University and University of Illinois at Chicago. 

 

Chancellor Salgado has been nationally recognized for his work, including as a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. Among his civic commitments, he serves as a board member of the Obama Foundation and a Class C Director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.