Education

Enzo Ciarletta isn’t your typical first-grade dropout. Indeed, he’s accumulated a wealth of educational laurels – and life lessons – since he unilaterally, and without the knowledge of his old-school Italian immigrant mother, took a two-week hiatus from school at the tender age of 6, having decided that the educational system just wasn’t for him. Full Story 

More than 100,000 Wisconsinites are collecting unemployment insurance, yet a state website has about 30,000 job openings posted, which begs the question: aren't there some matches to be found? This skills mismatch, in part a function of long-term unemployment that gradually erodes worker skills, and ever-changing technology in the workplace that aids that erosion, has the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) scrambling for short- and long-term fixes, and local colleges – technical and executive education – crafting new ways to serve local employers and workers. Full Story 

Henry Ford is famous for having said, “History is bunk.” As the pre-eminent industrialist of his era, Ford could perhaps be forgiven for thinking the present and future were more important than the past. And if any modern industry were to qualify for an exemption on maintaining an intimate connection with its past, e-learning would appear to be it. Full Story 

Say the words “business conference” and you’ll likely evoke images of stiff-backed chairs, neatly pressed suits, and cavernous rooms where titans of industry hold court. Say “un-conference” and you might be met with blank stares – but you’ll certainly get people’s attention. Full Story