Education/Training/Workforce News
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — The state says Michigan’s jobless rate has reach its lowest level since summer 2008 amid employment gains and stable workforce levels.
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — More online charter schools will be allowed in Michigan under a law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder that he and other supporters say will provide more choices, although critics think the changes are premature and lack quality control.
05/15/12 LANSING (AP) — State labor officials say they expect the teen unemployment rate will drop slightly this summer as more applicants find work.
05/13/12 It seems implausible that junk food wouldn't be recession-proof. Yet last week, Hostess Brands Inc. warned the state that it could lay off all 381 employees at 20 locations throughout Michigan if the company liquidates as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring -- its second in less than a decade.
HEALTH CARE EXTRA
05/13/12 Ford Motor Co. began offering adult immunizations directly to its workforce three years ago when it contracted with an outside vendor to set up clinics at its facilities.
05/13/12 When I graduated from what's now Grand Valley State University in 1979, I carried a student loan debt of what I think was about $1,200.
05/11/12 DETROIT (AP) — The DTE Energy Foundation will use $750,000 to fund up to 500 summer jobs for youth in Detroit and other communities.
05/10/12 Detroit now ranks second nationally for year-over-year job growth in the manufacturing sector, according to a study released Wednesday by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution.
05/10/12 Good research news comes out of the University of Michigan in threes this week.
05/10/12 A markup to a 2013 defense bill that cleared the House Armed Services Committee early this morning would preserve planes and jobs targeted for elimination at Selfridge Air National Guard Base for at least one year.
05/09/12 A bond issue today for the Detroit Public Schools probably will save even more than the $23 million in accelerated bond payments that were set to begin June 1, under an agreement with Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd.
05/09/12 ANN ARBOR (AP) — A research funding effort at the University of Michigan is putting $15 million into the hands of professors to jump-start projects they believe in.
05/08/12 LANSING — Domino’s Pizza Inc. President and CEO J. Patrick Doyle gave a pop quiz Monday to the 350 officials from business, education and government who attended the Business Leaders for Michigan higher education summit at the Lansing Center.
05/08/12 ANN ARBOR (AP) — The University of Michigan is getting $1.3 million in federal money to help train and educate the next generation of leaders in the nation’s nuclear industry.
05/07/12 LANSING (AP) — The head of Domino's Pizza Inc. says Michigan needs to invest more in higher education to better compete with states like North Carolina.
05/07/12 People are more optimistic about the country’s economic outlook, according to a study released today by Walsh College in Troy.
05/07/12 YPSILANTI (AP) — Two Southeast Michigan school systems would turn into one under a proposal that could go before voters in the Ypsilanti and Willow Run school districts.
05/04/12 LANSING — Entrepreneurial degrees, classes, clubs and competitions are on the rise at all 15 Michigan public universities, a development that officials say bodes well for community and economic development, a survey has found.
05/03/12 ANN ARBOR (AP) — The University of Michigan is setting up shop in California, with an MBA program being run out of a Beverly Hills hotel.
05/02/12 b>Business Leaders for Michigan is holding a summit in Lansing on Monday to share strategies on how the state’s higher education institutions can help economic development.
05/02/12 LANSING (AP) — Opponents of a recently approved plan to allow more online charter schools in Michigan failed to garner enough votes to reconsider it Tuesday in the House, sending the measure on to the Senate for likely final passage.
05/01/12 DETROIT — General Motors Co. plans to cut about a quarter of the workers at its research and development facility at the Warren Technical Center, part of a broader reorganization of its R&D operation.
04/30/12 Lawrence Technological University today named Virinder Moudgil its seventh president, replacing Lewis Walker.
04/29/12 Hewlett-Packard Co. could add more than 200 jobs in Pontiac over the next four years after enrolling in part of a $5 million grant program awarded to Troy-based Automation Alley to train new workers.
FOCUS: TALENT/RECRUITMENT
04/29/12 Earlier this month, the U.S. government began accepting applications for an immigrant worker visa program designed to counter fluctuations in the high-tech workforce. But experts say it could be used to solve Southeast Michigan's immediate need for skilled laborers.
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MICHIGAN BRIEFS: 381 jobs at risk with Twinkies maker back in Ch. 11