Education & Workforce Development

Teachers of Wisconsin: lift up your heads and be proud. A recent survey shows your reputations are secure and you are highly respected.

In the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, released today, Republican Gov. Scott Walker put more distance between himself and Democratic challenger Mary Burke.

Laura Timm, vice president of corporate communications and public affairs at Briggs & Stratton Corp., tells young professionals to follow five guiding words: Integrity, balance, passion, voice and presentation.

Mount Mary University has received a legacy gift of $1.4 million from alumna Joan Hetzel Iraneta, who graduated from the school in 1956 with degrees in English and art.

Lake Geneva-based Trostel, a custom rubber molding and compounding company, recently launched a manufacturing youth apprenticeship program in cooperation with GPS Education Partners, a nonprofit that provides immersive work-based education programs. The manufacturer began providing learning space and apprenticeship training to high school students at its Whitewater and Lake Geneva operations in September.

After more than a decade of shaping students in Milwaukee's central city neighborhoods, Bob Dunn, president and CEO of Our Next Generation, Inc., has retired and turned the nonprofit over to newly appointed leader La Toya Sykes.

You would hardly know it from the campaign for governor, but Wisconsin has more than a brain drain; it has a brain hemorrhage.

With applications coming in by the thousands for its medical school campuses in Milwaukee and in Green Bay, the Medical College of Wisconsin today announced a new academic brand and logo for the school.

TEMPO Milwaukee welcomed Pattie Sellers of Fortune Magazine to its 2014 Leadership Event, held on Oct. 16 at Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The annual event brings together business and community leaders for a discussion on how to optimize effectiveness in the workplace. Sellers, whose career has largely centered on covering top women executives, shared what she has learned about power and women in leadership across industries. BizTimes Media was a sponsor of the event.

Wisconsin Eye has posted a video of the BizTimes Get Smarter Conference, which was held Friday at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino.