Education & Workforce Development

“The Transfer of Knowledge and Power to the Next Generation” will be the theme of the 2014 BizTimes Get Smarter Talent Development Conference.

With just how admired teachers are across all communities you wouldn't think a gift box for teachers is needed, but it really is. We live in pretty goofy times. There really are millions being spent every year in a coordinated political attack to undermine the position of respect teachers have earned in our communities.

Mequon-based Concordia University Wisconsin has added a program in Sheboygan this fall that allows registered nurses to earn a bachelor of science in nursing.

Editor's note: This “A Note from Bill” article, written by Bill Penzey, owner of Brookfield-based Penzeys Spices, appears in the newest Penzeys Spices catalog.

Imagine a plan designed to help people with disabilities find jobs in the community that left 78 percent of these people worse off than they were before.

Next Door Foundation, Inc., a Milwaukee-based nonprofit early childhood education center, will kick off the school year on Tuesday at its new location, 5310 W. Capitol Drive.

Cunningham Intermediate School will receive about $480,000 over the next five years to a start before-and-after-school program.

To better reflect its academic offerings in health sciences fields, Fox Point-based Cardinal Stritch University has renamed its school of nursing, long known as the Ruth S. Coleman College of Nursing.

Kenosha’s Carthage College has hired Frank Hicks as its founding director of nursing, the first step toward the creation of a bachelor of science in nursing program.

Plymouth Tube Co. plans to close one of its East Troy mills and lay off 34 employees, according to a WARN notice filed with the state last week.