GREEN BAY ― The Green Bay School Board has selected Claude Tiller as the district's new superintendent, starting July 1. He will be the first Black man to hold the position.
Tiller is the assistant superintendent over high school transformation with the Detroit Public Schools Community District, a district of 53,000 students and more than 100 schools. The Green Bay School District's enrollment is 19,000 students with 42 buildings.
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Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
UA 400 Pipe Trades and Mechanical Contractors Association of WIsconsin host 2nd annual Women in the Pipe Trades Open House
FOX CITIES CHAMBER
KAUKAUNA -- UA 400 Pipe Trades and the Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA) hosted its Women in the Pipe Trades Open House on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at the UA 400 training center in Kaukauna, Wisconsin in conjunction with Women in Construction Week 2023. The event featured a one-hour panel discussion with five women working in the industry followed by a question-and-answer session.
The panelists included Kim Bassett, CEO of Bassett Mechanical, Laura Ceja, training and outreach representative for the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices in the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry; Hope Voigt, chief operating officer for Tweet/Garot Mechancial; Kristen Vera, virtual design coordinator at Tweet/Garot Mechanical and UA 400 member; and Lynn O’Shasky, apprenticeship training representative for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development with UA 400 Business Manager Doug Dokey serving as moderator...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
7 Wisconsin companies make World's Most Ethical Companies list
BIZ TIMES
WISCONSIN -- Seven Wisconsin companies are included on the 2023 World’s Most Ethical Companies list by Scottsdale, Arizona-based Ethisphere Institute.
Ethisphere launched the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition program in 2006 to measure and showcase organizations doing business with ethics and integrity. The evaluation process includes a 200-point assessment, documentation and research into an organization’s reputation and ethical practices.
Here are the Wisconsin companies that made the 2023 World’s Most Ethical Companies list, including their headquarters location and the number of times that they have made the list:...
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Technology and Innovation
Mercury Marine takes home innovation award
THE BUSINESS NEWS
FOND DU LAC – Like many companies in the transportation/recreation sector, Mercury Marine – manufacturers of outboard motors and MerCruiser inboard engines – is adapting to industry changes.
Fortunately, the Fond du Lac-based company, which began operations in 1939, seems to be a quick learner.
After first introducing the Mercury Avator 7.5e outboard motor at the Consumer Electronics Show 2023 in Las Vegas in early January, Mercury’s first attempt at an electric motor recently took home the Innovation Award at the Miami International Boat Show
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Women of Influence nominations close March 15
INSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
NEW NORTH -- Nominations close Wednesday for the 2023 Women of Influence in the New North Region awards.
Influential women touch our lives in countless ways. Share the story of a New North woman who influenced your life or career by nominating her.
Insight Publications will recognize women in the following categories...
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Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Sherrilyn Ifill to present Norman and Louis Miller Lecture at St. Norbert College
ST. NORBERT COLLEGE
DE PERE -- Sherrilyn Ifill will present the Spring 2023 Norman and Louis Miller Lecture in Public Understanding on Tuesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in the Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Art’s Walter Theatre, 315 Third St., De Pere. The lecture, “A Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill,” is free and open to the public. The conversation-style interview will feature Thomas Kunkel, St. Norbert College interim president, and Robyn Y. Davis, president and CEO of Brown County United Way.
Sherrilyn Ifill served as the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as president and director-counsel emeritus. Ifill, the second woman to ever lead LDF, provided visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history...
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Lawrence dance lecturer Kraker chosen for prestigious MacDowell Fellowship
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
APPLETON -- Mauriah Donegan Kraker, lecturer of dance, has received a prestigious 2023 MacDowell Artist-in-Residency Fellowship.
Selected from a pool of more than 1,800 applicants, she joins 141 other fellows – architects, composers, filmmakers, interdisciplinary artists, theater artists, visual artists, writers, and poets – from 23 states and 11 countries for a month-long residency. MacDowell’s stated mission “is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination.”..
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