What does Superman, a sausage company entrepreneur, crooning singer, professional wrestler, legendary basketball coach and the “Mayhem Guy” from Allstate Insurance commercials have in common?

They’re all people who’ve made our Ultimate Deans List.

Yes, to celebrate the release of the most recent Moraine Park Technical College Dean’s List, we’ve compiled another special list of Deans just for fun. So, without further ado (that was just the perfect amount of ado, though, wasn’t it?) here’s a list of famous people with the first or last name Dean: Continue reading

Nettie Jenkins from Flight for Life Fond du Lac Base recently ran a course I organized for our students that gave them hands-on experience about heart and lungs. To do so, our students dissected and examined pig hearts and lungs.

Now, if a picture is worth a thousand words, for those with a weak stomach, the one that might come to mind first is “yuck” when glancing through the images below.

But, truthfully, the words that should resonate most are “life-saving” and “learning.”  Continue reading

Analytics, the process of examining large data sets to uncover patterns, is everywhere. And from Nursing to the NFL, “big data” is everywhere. But long before this term was coined, accountants were using data to discover trends.

Indeed, accountants are the catalyst for this rapidly growing trend, and they are at the center of its use. Continue reading

Moraine Park Technical College is hosting a “Hiring and Resource” event for veterans on March 1.

The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the College’s Beaver Dam campus, 700 Gould Street, and is co-sponsored by Moraine Park and Dodge County Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

The event is free and open to veterans, active duty and National Guard and Reserves, as well as their family members.  Continue reading