Scott Niederjohn and Mark Schug

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Scott Niederjohn is Professor of Economics and Director of the Free Enterprise Center at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon. Scott is a widely known scholar in the areas of economic education and public policy analysis. He has published more than one hundred journal articles, book chapters, monographs, reports and curricular materials. Scott is also the co-author of three books: Economic Episodes in American History, Second Edition (Wohl Publishing), Economic Episodes in Civics and American Government (Wohl Publishing), and Teachers Can Be Financially Fit: Economists’ Advice for Educators (Springer).

Scott serves on the Wisconsin Governor’s Council for Financial Literacy and has received the Governor’s Financial Literacy Award in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2018.
During the fall of 2013, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at the University of Luxembourg. He serves on the boards of the Association of Private
Enterprise Education (APEE) and The Menard Family Midwest Initiative for Economic Engagement and Research. Scott was recognized in the December 2014 issue of Money Magazine for his work in shaping the landscape of financial education curriculum.

Scott earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is married to Stephanie. They reside in Wauwatosa, WI with their four children. Read more about Scott on his website: www.ScottNiederjohn.com.

Mark C. Schug is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and President of Mark Schug Consulting Services. Mark taught for 36 years at the middle school, high school, and university levels. A widely recognized scholar, he has written and edited over 230 articles, books, and national curriculum materials. He has spoken to local, state, and national groups throughout the United States and in 11 other countries. He has been the guest co-editor of 14 issues of Social Education, the flagship journal of the National Council for the Social Studies. His latest books are Economic Episodes in American History published by Wohl Publishing and co- authored by William C. Wood, Tawni Hunt Ferrarini and M. Scott Niederjohn, now in its second edition. The same author team of Ferrarini, Niederjohn, Schug, and Wood wrote Teachers Can Be Financially Fit: Economists’ Advice for Educators which was published in 2020 by Springer Nature.

Mark does consulting for several local, state, and national organizations and has served on the boards of local, state, and national non-profit organizations including the (national) Association of Private Enterprise Education, Economics Wisconsin, Business and Economics Academy of Milwaukee (BEAM), St. Andrew Lutheran
Church, School Choice Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies. Mark earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has received six national awards for leadership, curriculum writing (two), service, and research (two) in economic education.

Mark and his wife Io have been married for 55 years, have two grown daughters, and four grandchildren. They live in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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