Education & Workforce Development

The MKE Tech Hub Coalition, an organization created to attract and retain technology talent and companies to metro Milwaukee, will receive a $385,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development for an apprenticeship program for technology skills.

After starting the decade with the third-highest level of research and development spending in the country, the University of...

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. and the Quadracci family’s Windhover Foundation are committing $1 million over three years to bring The BrandLab to Milwaukee, the company announced today.

Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Community Services recently purchased Employ Milwaukee’s headquarters, where it is a tenant, for just under $3.2 million.

Alverno College will expand its nursing program to Arizona with plans to open a location in a suburb of Phoenix next year.

Milwaukee philanthropist and former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl is again fulfilling all project requests from Wisconsin educators on the crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.

Marquette University has received a $1 million gift to support the $3 million restoration of its St. Joan of Arc Chapel.

SC Johnson is donating $5.5 million to Gateway Technical College to create scholarships for women, people of color and low-income students pursuing STEM-related career fields.

Philanthropists Darren and Tracy Jackson are donating $31 million to support Marquette University's College of Nursing students and programs, president Michael Lovell announced Thursday.

WRTP/Big Step, a Milwaukee-based workforce development group, has named Lindsay Blumer its new president and chief executive officer.