Speaker Biographies

One of the key aspects of the NNN is the network of professionals eager to help others in promoting education that integrates quantitative skills across all disciplines and at all levels. Here we provide very brief bios of some of our NNN members who are available to serve as speakers or consultants. Please contact the individuals directly if you wish to engage them at your own institution.

Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College
egaze@bowdoin.edu Eric Gaze directs the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) program at Bowdoin College, he is a past chair of SIGMAA-QL (2010-12), a board member of the NNN (2010-13), and NNN President (2014-now). He ...

Neil Lutsky, Carleton College
nlutsky@carleton.edu Neil Lutsky helped develop Carleton College's FIPSE-funded Quirk (Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge) initiative, an across the curriculum approach to promoting quantitative ...

Nathan Grawe, Carleton College
ngrawe@carleton.edu Nathan Grawe is Professor of Economics at Carleton College where he has helped lead the Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QuIRK) initiative. He has spoken at numerous ...

Corri Taylor, Wellesley College
ctaylor1@wellesley.edu Corri Taylor directs the Quantitative Reasoning Program at Wellesley College. She has advised dozens of colleges and universities in their development of QR programs, courses, and assessment ...

Stuart Boersma, Central Washington University
boersmas@cwu.edu Stuart Boersma, Professor of Mathematics at Central Washington University, has lead several workshops on "Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with the News" for college instructors as well as ...

Donna Sundre, CARS, James Madison University
sundredl@jmu.edu Donna L. Sundre is the Executive Director of James Madison University's Center for Assessment and Research Studies, the largest higher education assessment center in the United States. Dr. ...

Sue Mente, Alverno College
Sue.Mente@alverno.edu Sue Mente is the Assistant Director of Instructional Services at Alverno College. She coordinates the Quantitative Literacy across the Curriculum program and writes curriculum for ...

Bernie Madison, University of Arkansas
bmadison@uark.edu Bernard L. Madison, professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas and founding president of the National Numeracy Network, has worked in quantitative literacy (QL) for more than a decade. .

Milo Schield, Augsburg University
Schield@Augsburg.edu   Milo Schield, a Professor in Business Administration at Augsburg University, has worked on statistical literacy for almost 25 years.  He has presented invited half-day workshops on statistical literacy at the 2016 IASE Roundtable in Berlin and at the 2019 USCOTS conference in State College PA. 

Milo's 70+ publications have received over 700 citations according to ResearchGate (1,270 citations according to Google Scholar).    Copies of Milo's publications are available at ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net/profile/Milo_Schield) by publication date and on the StatLit website (www.statlit.org/Schield-Pubs.htm) by topic.

Milo is the author of the textbook: Statistical Literacy: The Story Behind the Story (2011).  An update is scheduled for fall 2019.  Milo is currently the Vice President of the National Numeracy Network (NNN), US Representative of the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the webmaster of www.StatLit.org   

John R Jungck, University of Delaware
jungck@udel.edu What does it mean to observe, look, see? How does quantitative reasoning inform our appreciation of the visual world? I argue that we need to do re-visioning to develop insight. While my background ...