Education & Workforce Development

College Possible Milwaukee will help 375 area students from low-income families boost their ACT scores and open up their college options with support of a $300,000 grant from Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation.

Four months ago, at the onset of Wisconsin's state budget process, we asked Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to partner with us toward our MMAC goal of increasing the number of high-performing educational options in Milwaukee.

The Wellness Council of America (WELCOA), with its local affiliate, the Wellness Council of Wisconsin, presented the coveted Well Workplace Awards to seven Wisconsin employers this week.

Fond du lac-based Marian University has named Robert Fale as its interim president.

The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc. will receive a $205,850 Brownfield Program award from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to assist in the environmental remediation at the site of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s new Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa.

Unless Congress acts, on July 1, the interest rate for 159,147 student loan borrowers in Wisconsin will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, according to a new report by WISPIRG (Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group), a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest advocacy organization.

Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup has released the results of its eighth annual Talent Shortage Survey, revealing 39 percent of U.S. employers are having difficulty finding staff with the right skills, down from 49 percent in 2012.

St. Charles Youth & Family Services plans to launch a workforce development initiative tailored to youth through a $1 million Project JUMP START grant it has received from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Southwest Key Programs' national headquarters.

Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup today released the results of its eighth annual Talent Shortage Survey, revealing 39 percent of U.S. employers are having difficulty finding staff with the right skills, down from 49 percent in 2012.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. is donating 12 grants worth $336,000 to colleges and universities throughout Wisconsin in an effort to make higher education more affordable for underprivileged students.