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Chancellor Juan Salgado was recently recognized for his efforts to advocate for youth in Chicago by Project OneTen. At the non-profit organization’s annual Summer Soirée...

Read City Colleges’ June 2025 newsletter below or here.

This is the official podcast of KRA Corporation: The HUB --In this episode, host Jonathan Overall sits down with Dean Barbara Goodall Meschino, MSW, LSW,...

Read City Colleges’ May 2025 newsletter below or here.

Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska May 19th, 1925 and was assassinated in 1965. His legacy of knowledge, education, and equality has spread across...

Malcolm X College students, employees, leadership, and community members gathered on May 19 to commemorate a milestone of immense significance—the 100th birthday of the college’s...

https://thechicagolandjournal.com/malcolm-x-college-to-celebrate-the-100th-birthday-of-its-namesake-malcolm-x/

Read City Colleges' April 2025 newsletter below, or click here to open it in a separate browser.

Amid recent concerns about job security for some, there is an industry hiring, as more are needed in heating, ventilation and air conditioning -- or...

The new partnership has been dubbed Chicago Roadmap 2.0 and builds on a previous partnership between CPS and CCOC called Chicago Roadmap, which helped CPS...

Five years after its initial debut, Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago announced the expansion of their education...

On Thursday, April 10, 2025, City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado was presented with the 2025 Distinguished Fellow Award from Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC)...

Latinos on the move

Juan Salgado, chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, was elected to chair the MacArthur Foundation board of directors, effective June 1. Salgado, who was named a...

Salgado has been leading Chicago’s city colleges since 2017. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino, a Chicago-based nonprofit that...

Juan Salgado, career champion for economic mobility, was elected to chair the MacArthur Board of Directors and will assume the role in June 2025.