Luis Narvaez Selected as 2025 State Advocate for Adult Education Fellow
February 7, 2025
Associate Vice Chancellor of Adult Education Luis Narvaez has been selected as one of the 2025 State Advocates for Adult Education Fellows by the Coalition...
The Civic Federation recently announced that City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado will receive its distinguished 2024 Motorola Solutions Foundation Excellence in Public Service Award in December.
Since 1992, the award has recognized a non-elected government official who has made a profound impact on the quality of state and local government services in Illinois. According to the Civic Federation, the Excellence in Public Service Award “seeks to recognize individuals who show dedication to a vision of quality management, leadership, and innovation that leads to lasting achievements and more effective government.” Salgado will receive the award at an event in his honor on December 12, 2024.
Chancellor Salgado has focused his career on improving education and economic opportunities for residents in low-income communities. As Chancellor, he oversees Chicago’s community college system, serving more than 66,000 students across seven colleges, more than three-quarters of whom are Black or Latine. Under his leadership, City Colleges has become Chicago’s most accessible higher education engine for racial and socioeconomic mobility.
Chancellor Salgado has also 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.
In addition to being recognized for his efforts, Chancellor Salgado seeks to ensure the students, faculty, and staff of City Colleges are recognized for their achievements. In 2018, he launched the City Colleges of Chicago Luminary Awards to recognize the students and employees who make our seven colleges exceptional places to study and to work, and who make our communities better places to live.
To learn more and register to attend the 33rd Annual Motorola Solutions Foundation Excellence in Public Service Awards, presented and administered by the Civic Federation, visit https://civicfed.org/33rdExcellencePublicServiceAward.