Wisconsin
Wisconsin Technical College System: Wisconsin Technical College System Board re-elects officers
MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Technical School System (WTCS) Board re-elected its officers on the July 13 Board assembly hosted by Western Technical School in La Crosse.
Dr. Rodney Pasch was re-elected to function Board President. Pasch grew up on a dairy farm close to Kendall, Wisconsin and graduated from Royall Excessive College. He earned bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in Industrial Know-how from UW-Platteville and a Ph.D. in Academic Administration from UW-Madison. His instructing expertise consists of carpentry trades at Southwest Tech in Fennimore, graduate programs in architectural design and industrial supplies at UW Platteville, and graduate programs in Academic Management and Public Sector Labor Regulation at Marian College in Fond du Lac.
S. Mark Tyler was re-elected to function Board Vice President. Tyler is founder and chairman of OEM Fabricators, Inc., a rising contract producer in Western Wisconsin. He has been a lifelong advocate of Technical Schooling and started his profession with a Design Know-how Diploma from St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute in Minnesota. He served as a Nationwide Officer for VICA (now SkillsUSA) and served on Minnesota’s Vocational Trainer Certification Requirements Committee. In 2005, he accomplished the Minnesota Govt Program by way of the College of Minnesota’s Carlson College of Administration. In 2011, he acquired his MBA from the College of St. Thomas.
Douglas A. Holten, Sr. was re-elected to function the Board Secretary. Born and raised in Milwaukee as certainly one of 9 kids, Holton graduated from Marquette College Excessive College and UW-Milwaukee, holding a bachelor’s in prison justice and a grasp’s diploma in city research. He served a 25-year profession advancing by way of the Milwaukee Hearth Division, ultimately serving as Milwaukee’s fifteenth Hearth Chief. He additionally served various roles at Madison School together with Affiliate Dean for the College of Human and Protecting Companies.
The assembly at Western Technical School additionally included the WTCS Board’s Futuremaker Accomplice award honoring LAB Midwest, the Mequon-based distributor of curriculum, coaching gear, and eLearning for each instructional and industrial purposes. Western Technical School additionally celebrated being awarded a $194,000 grant from the Wisconsin Technical School System to assist develop their Hearth and EMS efforts in rural communities.