Education & Workforce Development

Marquette University has filled another of its vacant leadership positions with Brian Till, Ph.D., who has been named the next James H. Keyes Dean for the College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management.

The Workforce Development Center of Waukesha County will host a Spring Job Fair on Wednesday, May 13.

Racine-based SC Johnson & Son has ended its contract with Ohio logistics provider Exel, according to a WARN notice filed with state officials on Wednesday. As a result, 98 Exel employees will be affected.

McCain Foods USA Inc. of Lisle, Ill., announced on Wednesday that it will close operations at its Fort Atkinson manufacturing plant at 801 Rockwell Ave. due to “changing business dynamics.”

Former Harley-Davidson chief executive officer and president James Ziemer and his wife, Yvonne, have donated $1 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing. Intended to strengthen UWM's ability to fill a growing nursing shortage in Wisconsin, the gift will fund a clinical simulation center on the university's Kenwood Campus, which is home to Wisconsin's largest nursing program.

The Wisconsin unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent in March, down from 4.8 percent in February, according to preliminary estimates released by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is offering a voluntary separation incentive to some employees to help save money in anticipation of cuts in state funding.

Lori Bergen, Ph.D., dean of Marquette University’s J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication, plans to part ways with the school to pursue a similar leadership position at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

As approximately 9,000 people between age 21 and 40 leave Wisconsin each year, according to figures from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, Newaukee is banding together with other young professional groups in the state to begin reversing that brain drain.

David Dies fears that if Gov. Scott Walker succeeds in eliminating the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board, the for-profit schools it oversees will ramp up practices that could harm students.