Mark C. Schug is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Schug taught for over 36 years at the middle school, high school, and university levels. He served as Senior Fellow with the National Council on Economic Education from 2002-2005. He works as a national consultant on economic and financial education and urban education policy. Professor Schug often speaks and writes about economic and financial education, market-based reforms in education, and issues in urban school districts. He serves on the boards of the (national) Association of Private Enterprise, Business and Economics Academy of Milwaukee, Economics Wisconsin, University School of Milwaukee and the Governor’s Council on Financial Literacy.
William C. Wood is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at James Madison University. Wood was the recipient of teaching awards at the University of Virginia and at James Madison University, where he was the 2001-2002 Distinguished Teacher in the College of Business. Wood was named in 2002 as an inaugural winner of the Southern Economic Association’s Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award. Wood is also a past recipient of the Alpha Kappa Psi-Clifford D. Spangler award for research in risk and insurance and Best Paper award for the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is the author of three books, more than 30 scholarly articles, and national economic education materials for school and adult audiences.
