Community Restores the Outdoors at the Urban Ecology Center

Volunteers dressed in jeans, sweaters and tennis shoes walked toward an open field, gardening gloves on and blue-handled trowels ready. Large green reusable bags were placed on the ground near the first site that they would be working on. Today they would be uprooting yellow rocket, an invasive species of mustard in Wisconsin, to put […]

“I think Generation Z definitely has a shifting mindset about how deserving or entitled we are to higher paying jobs without needing college.”

Corbin Johnson, 19, is a Milwaukee resident who attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the fall of 2022 with a major in art and a dear friend. He transferred to Milwaukee Area Technical College to pursue sound engineering, but later dropped out due to tuition costs and his opinion that he could teach himself what […]