Milo A Schield
Professor
schield@augsburg.edu
Milo Schield has been at Augsburg since 1985. He founded the MIS
program at Augsburg and took it to be the seventh largest major
within six years. He served as the chair of the Department of Business
Administration for three years.
Earning a physics degree from Iowa State University, an M.S. in
physics from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in space physics
from Rice University, Schield worked on the Apollo project at North
American Aviation and on satellite data analysis at the University
of Iowa. After starting several businesses, he worked as a management
consultant for a national CPA firm and as an operations analyst
at the St. Paul Insurance Companies before coming to Augsburg.
At Augsburg he has taught courses in MIS at the undergraduate level
and taught courses in critical thinking and statistics at the undergraduate
and graduate levels.
Schield pioneered the development of statistical literacy at Augsburg.
In 1995, he first introduced statistical literacy in the Department
of Business Administration. In 1998, he introduced Statistical Literacy
for majors in the humanities. In addition to giving talks on Statistical
Literacy in the US and Canada, Schield has given talks in England,
Scotland, Wales, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Japan and China.
He has also given talks at the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
In 2001, Augsburg College received a $500,000 grant from the W.
M. Keck Foundation “to develop statistical literacy as an
interdisciplinary curriculum in the liberal arts.” In his
book, More Damned Lies and Statistics, author Joel Best
noted, “a small educational movement advocating statistical
literacy is emerging. Dr. Milo Schield, director of the W. M. Keck
Statistical Literacy project at Augsburg College in Minneapolis,
is the movement’s leading voice.”
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