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CURRICULUM VITAE

MILO SCHIELD

Title: Professor (Promoted to Associate in 1990, promoted to full professor in 2001)
Status: Tenured (1991)
Dept: Business Administration, Accounting and Management Information Systems (MIS)

Course Recently Taught at Augsburg (within the past 5 years)

Quantitative Reasoning/Statistical Literacy (GST 200)
Statistics for Business: Introductory and Intermediate (MIS 379 & MIS 479)
Critical Thinking (MAL 521), Masters of Arts in Leadership program
Decision Making and Leadership (MAL 545), Masters of Arts in Leadership program

Courses Previously Taught at Augsburg (More than 5 years past)

Critical Thinking (GST 100)
Management Information Systems courses (MIS 175, 370, 375, 475 and 476).
Microeconomics, Principles and Intermediate (ECO 111 and 313)
Economics of Legal Reasoning (ECO 495, topics)

Academic Employment

1985 - Now, Augsburg College, Full-time, Department of Business and MIS
1985 - 1994, University of St. Thomas. Adjunct faculty, Quantitative Methods

Special Academic Responsibilities

1985, Area leader for the MIS area. Started area and took to 7th largest major in 7 years.
1995-1999, Chair, Department of Business Administration, Accounting and MIS
2001-Present, Director of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project

Professional Memberships - Statistics

American Statistical Association, Section on Statistical Education (since 1992)
International Association on Statistical Education (IASE)

Publications and Talks Involving Publications (1998 to 2004)

Schield, Milo (2004). Resolving Three Key Problems in the Humanities. 2004 International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities (Prato).

Schield, Milo (2004). Statistical Literacy and Liberal Education at Augsburg College. 2004 Peer Review (AACU).

Schield, Milo (2004). Statistical Literacy Curriculum Design. 2004 IASE Roundtable, Lund Sweden

Schield, Milo and Thomas Burnham (2004). Confounder-Resistance and Confounder Intervals for a Binary Confounder. 2004 ASA Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education (Toronto)

Terwilliger, Jim and Milo Schield (2004). Frequency of Simpson's Paradox in NAEP Data. 2004 Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA, San Diego)

Schield, Milo (2004). Three Graphs for Statistical Literacy. International Conference on Mathematics Education (ICME-10, Copenhagen)

Schield, Milo and Thomas Burnham (2003). Confounder-induced Spuriosity and Reversal: Algebraic Conditions for Binary Data Using a Non-Interactive Model. 2003 ASA Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education. [CD-ROM], 3690-3697.

Schield, Milo and Thomas Burnham (2002). Algebraic Relations Between Relative Risk, Phi and Measures of Necessity and Sufficiency in a 2x2 Table. 2002 ASA Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education.

Schield, Milo (2002). Three Kinds of Statistical Literacy, 2002 International Conference on Teaching Statistics (Cape Town)

Schield, Milo (2001). Describing Rates and Percentages in Tables, 2001 Business of Communications Conference.

Schield, Milo (2001). Statistical Literacy: Reading Tables of Rates and Percentages, 2001 JSM ASA

Schield, Milo (2000). Statistical Literacy: Difficulties in Describing and Comparing Rates and Percentages. 2000 ASA

Schield, Milo (2000). Statistical Literacy and Mathematical Thinking. 2000 ICME-9, Tokyo, Japan

Schield, Milo (1999). Simpson's Paradox and Cornfield’s Conditions. 1999 ASA Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education

Schield, Milo (1999). Common Errors in Forming Arithmetic Comparisons, 1999 APDU Of Significance

Schield, Milo (1998). Statistical Literacy and Evidential Statistics, 1998 JSM ASA

Professional Activities – Statistics (Not mentioned in publications and talks)

2004. Reviewer for "The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers" by Jane Miller.
1995 - 2004. Give a paper at the national meeting of Amer. Statistical Assoc.
1998 - 2004. Organize special Statistical Literacy session at national meeting of Amer. Statistical Assoc.
1998, reviewer for Student Edition of Minitab
1996, 1997. Beta tester for Minitab statistical software (Release 11 and 12)
1997, reviewer on Educational Testing Service computer-based learning project.
'94 - now, Attend annual meetings of the American Statistical Association
'94 - now, Attend annual MSMESB (Making Statistics Effective in Schools of Business)
1996, Sabbatical: RSS Centre for Statistical Education, Univ. of Nottingham
1995, Attend one-week seminar on teaching statistics. Math Association of America
1994, Attend one-week seminar on teaching statistics: National Science Foundation

Professional Activities - Other

2002, Attend one-week conference on philosophy and society (Bentley College)
1995, Attend one-week conference on philosophy and society (Univ. of Wisconsin)
1993, Attend one-week Critical Thinking Conference, Sonoma State, Sonoma, CA.
1989, Attend one-week seminar: Austrian Economics (Stanford University)
1988, Attend one-week seminar: history & society (Cato Institute, Dartmouth College)
1987, Attend one-week seminar: philosophy & society (Univ. of California, San Diego)

Post-Secondary Education and Examinations

Postgraduate, Business, Govt. & Society (12 courses), U. of Minnesota, '85 - '88
Actuarial Exam, Part I, 1980.
CMA, Certificate in Management Accounting, 1978
CPA Exam, Passed Law and Audit, 1978
Postgraduate, Economics and Statistics, Univ. of Iowa, 1968 - '70
Ph.D., Space Physics, Rice University, 1965 - '68
MS, Physics and Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois, 1963 - '65
BS, Physics and Economics, Iowa State Univ., 1958 - '62

Business Experience

Senior Operations Research Analyst, St. Paul Insurance, 1978 - '84
Senior Management Consultant, Fox & Co., CPA, 1976 - '78
President and co-founder, Bantam Data, 1972 - '76, Bantam Data

Source: http: //www.augsburg.edu/ppages/schield/vitae.htm. Updated November, 2004

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