FACULTY - Milo A Schield
Professor
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.”
