Education & Workforce Development

The national unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent in March, even though the economy only added 120,000 new jobs, failing to top the 200,000 mark for the first time since November.

The Northwestern Mutual Foundation recently donated 26 grants totaling nearly $1.4 million to 23 Wisconsin nonprofits that promote childhood literacy and increase access to higher education.

Michael Grandillo has been named the new president of Lakeland College in Sheboygan. Grandillo, 54 succeeds Stephen Gould, who was named Lakeland’s president in 1998 and will retire in May after serving the college for 42 years as a teacher and administrator. Grandillo is the 15th president of Lakeland.

Madison is well known for stem cell achievements: UW-Madison's James Thomson was the first scientist, in 1998, to grow human embryonic stem cells in a lab.

Michael Grandillo, a veteran of more than three decades of private higher education and community leadership, today was introduced as the new president of Lakeland College in Sheboygan.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee named Magda Peck the inaugural dean of the Joseph Zilber School of Public Health last October. Construction of the school's building in the former Pabst Brewery complex is nearing completion, and Peck recently started her duties as dean.

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. has recently implemented a management development program for its new employees.

Author Ritch Eich has recognized that motivation and direction from company leaders has become the next victim to the economic recession.

The Milwaukee Job Corps Center celebrated its first class of graduates in January, just one year after the school began accepting students.

Marquette University School of Dentistry Dean William K. Lobb was recognized by the American Dental Education Association with the 2012 William J. Gies Award for Innovation as a dental educator.