Education & Workforce Development

Crowds.io, a Milwaukee-based online startup incubator, plans to open a permanent office space in downtown Milwaukee.

At this year's MSSC Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, Butler-based nonprofit GPS Education Partners received the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) Authorized Center Award, a recognition given to schools and/or organizations who are “exceptional” leaders in MSSC assessment.

I have lived in Milwaukee most of my life, and I consider this city my home. Milwaukee is a beautiful city, an entrepreneurial city, with a fantastic food and music culture – uniquely suited for my millennial demographic. But I'm fairly sure that my demographic doesn't know that.

At this year's MSSC Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, Butler-based GPS Education Partners received the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) Authorized Center Award, a recognition given to schools and/or organizations who are “exceptional” leaders in MSSC assessment.

The reorganization of the 13 UW Colleges into four regional groups should be viewed as a first step toward a regional reorganization of the whole University of Wisconsin System.

Initial unemployment insurance claims fell to 255,000 nationally last week, on a seasonally adjusted basis. That’s 26,000 lower than the previous week, and the lowest number of claims since November 1973, a U.S. Labor Department report stated today.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee will extend its summer programming for thousands of area youth after receiving a $500,000 donation from former Senator Herb Kohl.

The University of Wisconsin Colleges will lay off more than 80 employees in a cost-cutting move that will see the network of two-year schools consolidate administration of its 13 campuses into four regions of the state, officials announced Tuesday.

Milwaukee-based global staffing and workforce solutions firm ManpowerGroup today reported second quarter net income of $105.7 million, or $1.33 per share, down from $109.8 million, or $1.35 per share, in the second quarter of 2014.

Marquette University is extending its focus on innovation to social enterprises and nonprofit organizations as it launches the Boost Program this fall.