WAUKESHA – The chief of the Local Workforce Planning Section in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Terry Ludeman will deliver the 2002 faculty appreciation lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha on Tuesday, August 27. He will speak at 10:30 a.m. in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on “Wisconsin's Economic Future: Is it Set in Stone, or Can We Make a Difference?”
Annually sponsored by the UW-Waukesha foundation, the Friends and Alumni of UWW, Inc., to inspire and motivate faculty and staff, the lecture also is open to the public at no charge.
In his discussion, Ludeman will examine recent and pending developments in Wisconsin’s labor markets and their implications for both the short and the long term. Several factors will affect the demand and supply of labor. Structural changes in industry makeup will influence demand, and an aging baby boom generation, the brain drain, and a sagging birth rate are considerations in supply.
Specifically, Ludeman will look at:
- Demographic changes and Wisconsin’s ability to increase its business/employment base;
- Wisconsin’s growing economy and an active, growing labor force’s part in it;
- The under use of our minority population and other demographic groups;
- The marketing of Wisconsin as a hospitable destination for new population groups – the highly educated and highly skilled – from abroad and other states;
- The need to put workforce and education issues first among the priorities of State of Wisconsin businesses.
The South Dakota native personally has dabbled in many job markets and has been developing and providing labor market information in Wisconsin since 1988. His employment record includes such diverse occupations as automobile assembler, farm laborer, cement mason, country western bandleader and singer, and bar owner before he started analyzing markets.
He graduated from Washington Park High School in Racine and UW-Parkside. A musician, golfer, and birdwatcher, he holds bachelor’s degrees in history and German and a master’s from Mankato (MN) State University in economics with a minor in statistics.
Selected by the University Convocations Committee, the faculty appreciation lecturer generally delivers a presentation just before the start of the school year. Classes begin September 3, 2002.
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