Today, the Institute of Real Estate Management announced it signed an MOU with the University of Wisconsin-Stout to advance the RE management profession through education, following a similar, recent MOU with Cornell. Through classes and programs, IREM wants students to see property management as a career of choice, not chance,chief strategy officer Nancye Kirk tells us. Many people fell into it, but with increasingly sophisticated building operations, we need well-trained property managers. That brings IREM's higher-ed collaborations to eight.