Encouraging Educational Advancement

This initiative focuses both upon tactics to encourage lifelong learning objective in the workforce, but also to encourage education and career-orientation for students recruited to technical trades or other demand occupations.  Aspects of this initiative include:

• The NEW Manufacturing Alliance, a collaboration of manufacturing firms, Workforce Development Boards, and technical colleges forms to address labor supply and promotion of manufacturing careers through educational institutions and through workforce transtiion training progams.
• A group of HR managers and service providers (including the education and workforce development resources) working specifically on workforce retention and recruitment issues tied specifically to occupations within customer service center operations.

Committee Chair:  Jeff Rafn, Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College
Committee Members:

• George Arnold, Silver Lake College
• Mike Besel, West De Pere High School
• Kathy Charles, Concordia University - Green Bay Center
• Carol Conway-Gerhardt, CESA 7
• Deby Dehn, WHEDA
• Dan Ensalaco, Moraine Park Technical College
• Frtiz Erickson, UW Green Bay
• Jim Golembeski, Bay Area Workforce Development Board
• Jay Gottleib, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
• Ben Grigg, Aarrowcast, Inc.
• JoAnn Hall, Moraine Park Technical College
• Margie Harvey, Miles Kimball Company
• Gayle Hytrek, Moraine Park Technical College
• Bob Kellogg, CESA 8
• Paul Linzmeyer, Innovative Sustainability for Organizations, Inc
• Marie Martin, Fox Valley Technical College
• Dan Nerad, Green Bay Public School District
• Jim Perry, UW Fox Valley
• Nancy Schopf, Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce
• Charlie Schrock, Wisconsin Public Service
• Todd Swanson, Ariens Company
• Craig Treichel, Miller Electric Mfg.
• Chad Waukechon, College of Menominee Nation
• Richard Wells, UW Oshkosh
• Tom Wiltzius, Right Management Consultants