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Amy Lewis, President of the UW-L Econ Club, was in the Tribune:

Amy Lewis catches herself browsing the Internet for jobs when she should be doing homework. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse senior has a world of job opportunities at her fingertips — and many of them are out of state.

“I think now with the way transportation is ... it’s easy to think you can go anywhere in the world,” she said, “and it’s not like you are tied to any one region.”

Some polls suggest Wisconsin’s “best and brightest” graduates leave the state, a phenomenon often called brain drain. But the majority of graduates from University of Wisconsin System schools as well as our local colleges stay in Wisconsin. Sixty-seven percent of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students, 75 percent of Viterbo students and 90 percent of Western Technical College students found employment or placement in Wisconsin within six months of graduation, based on the schools’ most recent data.

Lewis will graduate in December with degrees in economics and marketing, and
she wants to stay local. She has worked at Pearl Ice Cream Parlor & Confectionery and Features Sports Bar and Grill in West Salem during college, and she likes the small town business feel.

But she’s also a realist.

“I don’t expect to find a career once I graduate, even though I have a four-year degree from a great university,” she said. “I have no skills, no work experience to make me stand out.”