Commencement

2022 Commencement participants

Commencement

The College of Education's Commencement Ceremony is on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Credit Union 1 Arena located at 525 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60607.

Congratulations, Spring 2024 graduates!

Please visit UIC Commencement for the most up to date information.

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To be eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony, you must apply to graduate via Student Self-Service during the registration period. Meet with your academic advisor and verify your degree requirements to ensure you are eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony. Students completing their degree requirements during the summer or fall semesters are eligible to participate in the December commencement ceremony. For questions about degree progress, please make an appointment with your College of Education Academic Advisor.

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2024 Commencement Speaker - Juan Salgado, Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago Heading link

2023 Commencement Speaker Jitu Brown

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 more than 60,000 students across seven colleges, 75 percent of whom are Black and Latinx students.

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 called the Chicago Roadmap, the launch of Future Ready, a program to prepare Chicagoans with short-term credentials in in-demand fields at no cost, the launch of Fresh Start, a first-ever debt forgiveness program, the completion of two new 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.

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.

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