Education & Workforce Development

Lake Geneva-based Trostel, a custom rubber molding and compounding company, recently launched a manufacturing youth apprenticeship program in cooperation with GPS Education Partners, a nonprofit that provides immersive work-based education programs. The manufacturer began providing learning space and apprenticeship training to high school students at its Whitewater and Lake Geneva operations in September.

After more than a decade of shaping students in Milwaukee's central city neighborhoods, Bob Dunn, president and CEO of Our Next Generation, Inc., has retired and turned the nonprofit over to newly appointed leader La Toya Sykes.

You would hardly know it from the campaign for governor, but Wisconsin has more than a brain drain; it has a brain hemorrhage.

With applications coming in by the thousands for its medical school campuses in Milwaukee and in Green Bay, the Medical College of Wisconsin today announced a new academic brand and logo for the school.

TEMPO Milwaukee welcomed Pattie Sellers of Fortune Magazine to its 2014 Leadership Event, held on Oct. 16 at Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The annual event brings together business and community leaders for a discussion on how to optimize effectiveness in the workplace. Sellers, whose career has largely centered on covering top women executives, shared what she has learned about power and women in leadership across industries. BizTimes Media was a sponsor of the event.

Wisconsin Eye has posted a video of the BizTimes Get Smarter Conference, which was held Friday at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino.

The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board and Mayor Tom Barrett will host a job fair at Serb Hall, 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 8 to 11 a.m.

Corporate boards in Wisconsin are moving in the right direction with efforts to increase racial/ethnic and gender diversity, but more work is needed, according to a Board Diversity report released Monday by the Greater Milwaukee Committee in conjunction with Milwaukee Women inc.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced that the preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent in September, down from 5.7 percent in August and at its lowest since October 2008.

SHARP Literacy Inc., a Milwaukee-based nonprofit that promotes reading, writing and researching by engaging students in visual arts, welcomed LeVar Burton as the keynote speaker at its 2014 A Novel Event luncheon. Burton, an Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, director and author, is perhaps most famous for hosting and producing PBS’ “Reading Rainbow” educational TV program for more than 20 years. The luncheon was held at the Pfister Hotel and drew about 600 attendees. BizTimes Media served as the media sponsor.