It also provides training and technical assistance to Wisconsin's business and industry community.
Over 370,000 individuals accessed the technical colleges for education and training in the 2010–11 school year.
[3] Both of these bills resulted from the work of Charles McCarthy, the first director of the present-day state Legislative Reference Bureau.
In 1961, the school boards were authorized to offer associate's degree for two-year technical courses.
Recently, the funding structure of Wisconsin's technical colleges has drawn criticism.