Education & Workforce Development

Dirk Baldwin has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's College of Business, Economic and Computing.

Volunteer emergency workers in central Wisconsin are cheering a proposed federal law that would allow them to declare their services as a tax-deductible donation to the community.

Four Brown County companies received state Fast Forward training grants to develop in-demand skills for workers.

Trenda Boyum-Breen has been named president of Rasmussen College, effective March 30.

Moraine Park Technical College President Sheila Ruhland has verbally accepted the presidency position at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, Wash.

Milwaukee is one of two counties chosen to receive assistance from the National Reentry Resource Center to develop plans to improve the workforce reentry process for those with criminal records.

Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication has received a $3.5 million gift from the Bernice Shanke Greiveldinger Charitable Trust for capital improvement projects in the college's Johnston Hall.

Wisconsin's preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in November, down from 5.4 percent in October, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

“His collaborative approach to developing relationships with business leaders and the business community and the importance of those partnerships...

Just hours after Mark Mone, Ph.D., learned that he had been named University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's ninth chancellor on Monday, he addressed an audience of campus and community members, friends and media with a plan to forge “a new era” at the university.