Professional Summary
Edgar
(Ed) W. Shields, Jr., Ph.D. is a “Tar Heel” by birth and life-long
resident of NC. His hometown is the small community of High Falls, near
Robbins and Pinehurst-Southern Pines. Ed received BA, MAT and PhD
degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill. Immediately after completing the BA
degree, he taught health, physical education and mathematics, while
concomitantly coaching track and field, football, basketball and
baseball teams at Selma High School in Johnston County, NC. Next was
the MAT degree, followed by five years on the faculty at Mars Hill
College, Mars Hill, NC, where he taught every course in his department’s
curriculum at least once, while also serving as the Director of
Intramural Sports and Director of the Required Physical Education
Program. He was also a member of the college-wide Sub-Committee on
Curriculum Development that led to the implementation of a new and
innovative liberal arts curriculum for all students at Mars Hill
College. Chair of the Faculty Athletic Committee and Faculty
Representative to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA), as well as other responsibilities to the Athletic Department,
were other positions held at Mars Hill. After completion of the PhD
degree, he accepted a faculty position at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1974, where
he holds his current position. Administratively his Carolina experience
ranges from Director of Intramural-Recreational Sports (IM-REC) to
Supervisor of Student Teachers to Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) and
Director of Graduate Admissions (DGA). From the latter two positions he
currently directs Master of Arts degree programs in exercise physiology,
sport administration and sport medicine. During the first two decades
at Carolina he taught many different courses across several areas.
Since the mid-1990s his teaching responsibilities have been in the area
of Applied Statistics and Applied Research Methodology in the Master of
Arts program, although he also continues to teach personal health, golf
and alpine skiing in the undergraduate program during summers and the
winter break. For over a decade he was chair of the department’s Human
Subjects in Research Committee and the department’s Affirmative Action
Officer, the latter a post he continues to hold and he is currently a
member of the University’s Biomedical Institutional Review Board. Ed
annually serves on a very large number of thesis committees and provides
many individual consultations for students and some faculty as well, in
the areas of research design and statistical analysis. Holding
Fellow status in the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, his research,
publication and presentation record is as wide-ranging and extensive as
his administrative and teaching positions. His research, publications
and presentations range from motor learning to curriculum to
measurement-evaluation to high school sports and other specific topics
too numerous to list… to the broader areas of sport administration,
sport medicine and exercise physiology. He has collaborated with other
faculty and students on many different research projects across all EXSS
areas and has been author or co-author of publications in journals as
diverse as: The North Carolina Journal, Journal of Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance, Research Quarterly of AAHPERD, The
Sports Marketing Quarterly, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine,
Neurosurgery, Journal of Strength and Conditioning, Revista Paulista de
Medicini, Journal of Athletic Training, Adolescence, Journal of Sport
Rehabilitation, Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Journal of
Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, and the
Brazilian Journal of Physical Education and Sport. Author or co-author
of several book chapters is also on his list of publications. Ed has
also made presentations across the United States and in Europe at
various professional conferences. Invited lectures were given at the
ESSEC Business School in Cergy-Pointoise, France, and the University of
Paris-Dauphine. Publications and presentations easily exceed 100 in
number. At a 2005 national conference he presented a paper that
received the highest rating in the area of Sport Management. Ed also
served as editor of the North Carolina Journal for five years, the
professional journal for the NC Association for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance, and has been a member of editorial
boards of other journals. He has received the Distinguished Service
Award from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and an
“Outstanding Faculty Award” from the UNC Alumni Association and Division
of Student Affairs.
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