Education & Workforce Development

Northwestern Mutual Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to St. Marcus Lutheran School in Milwaukee.

New Berlin costume and party retailer BuySeasons Inc. has received a Commitment to a Diverse Workforce Award from the Wisconsin Seasonal Workforce Coalition.

Brookfield-based QPS Employment Group, an employment services firm, has acquired Cambridge TEMPositions Inc., a recruiting firm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

PEARLS for Teen Girls Inc., a Milwaukee nonprofit aimed at providing leadership skills to at-risk Latina and African-American teens, launched the 10,000 Girls Initiative on Thursday.

Students graduating from high school this month are making critical career path decisions that will determine their life's arc at a time when such decisions have never been more complex or uncertain.

Students graduating from high school this month are making critical career path decisions that will determine their life's arc at a time when such decisions have never been more complex or uncertain.

Effective Aug. 1, Wilson Jones, Oshkosh Corp. executive vice president and president of its Access Equipment segment, will be promoted to president and chief operating officer of the company.

Americans for the Arts, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the arts and arts education, has awarded the 2012 Arts Education Award to Milwaukee-based Arts @ Large.

Carroll University in Waukesha has received more than $4 million from the estate of a man to honor his late wife, who was a Carroll alumna.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. has agreed to donate $4.2 million over the next five years to The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to create The Northwestern Mutual Granum Center for Financial Security.