Education & Workforce Development
Bubbler Quote of the Week
“When you get to be 70, people think you shouldn’t be doing anything anymore. But I don’t take no...
Eight local health providers, UWM respond to gun violence at schools
Through a federal grant created to help communities respond to gun violence at schools, eight regional behavioral health providers and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are working to strengthen trauma and substance abuse counseling services for youth.
UWM has been blessed with fine chancellors
Mark Mone, Ph.D., knows he has some very big shoes to fill as the new chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
V&L Tool to hire 25
Waukesha-based V&L Tool Inc. is scheduled to hold a job fair on Thursday and Friday at its headquarters, 2021 MacArthur Road. The company plans to create as many as 25 new jobs to meet current demand for its products and services.
Maximizing the 4-Generation Workforce
Now that people are living well into their 80s, as opposed to their 40s as was the case a century ago, it is not entirely uncommon to find a 20-year-old working alongside a 70-year-old.
BizTimes Morning Headlines: NWTC explores $66.5 million referendum
Voters could be asked to support a $66.5 million borrowing plan for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in April.
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BizTimes Bubbler Executive of the Week: Vincent Lyles
BizTimes Milwaukee featured Vincent Lyles, president & CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, as its Bubbler Executive of the Week this week.
City receives redevelopment proposals for Bronzeville sites
City of Milwaukee officials are reviewing two redevelopment proposals for the former Garfield School property at 2215 N. Fourth Ave. and for the former America’s Black Holocaust Museum property southwest of Fourth and North avenues, next to the former Garfield School.
STEVENS POINT – MSTC Stevens Point campus dean to retire March 13
As a student at D.C. Everest High School, Steve Smith told his guidance counselor he wanted to be a truck driver. When the counselor insisted he should attend college, Smith responded that he would as long as it wasn’t to become a teacher.
MADISON – Bill would force persistently low-performing public schools to be made into charters
Persistently low-performing public schools would be turned into charter schools and state funding would be cut off for problem private schools, under school accountability legislation introduced Wednesday.
