Education & Workforce Development

Cunningham Intermediate School will receive about $480,000 over the next five years to a start before-and-after-school program.

To better reflect its academic offerings in health sciences fields, Fox Point-based Cardinal Stritch University has renamed its school of nursing, long known as the Ruth S. Coleman College of Nursing.

Kenosha’s Carthage College has hired Frank Hicks as its founding director of nursing, the first step toward the creation of a bachelor of science in nursing program.

Plymouth Tube Co. plans to close one of its East Troy mills and lay off 34 employees, according to a WARN notice filed with the state last week.

Pewaukee-based Waukesha County Technical College has announced an anonymous donor has pledged $1 million toward its new Integrated Manufacturing Center.

To better reflect its academic offerings in health sciences fields, Fox Point-based Cardinal Stritch University has renamed its school of nursing, long known as the Ruth S. Coleman College of Nursing.

Milwaukee Public Schools has filled almost all of its 5,000 teaching positions for the fast-approaching school year, but still needs to hire 44 more teachers.

Close to 20 academic leaders from the region's institutions convened at Marquette University on Thursday afternoon to discuss the possibility of an innovation district in the region with greater collaboration among corporations and academics.

A select group of eighth graders from Bruce-Guadalupe Middle School will be accepted into Carroll University early next year to prepare for careers in health and medical sciences.

Plymouth Tube Co. plans to close one of its East Troy mills and lay off 34 employees, according to a WARN notice filed with the state Monday.