Scott Toney
Scott Toney is the associate dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Daniels College of Business and a teaching professor in the Department of Business Information and Analytics.
As the associate dean for Undergraduate Programs, Scott oversees academic and career advising for all undergraduate business students. He also works on curricular and co-curricular matters related to undergraduate students in Daniels.
He started teaching part time at the University of Denver in 2007 and joined the Daniels College of Business full time in the fall of 2011. Scott works to incorporate innovation into his courses through online, hybrid and flipped classroom techniques. He also shares these techniques with his peers through direct mentoring, hands-on training and conference presentations.
Scott won the 2020 Daniels College of Business Service Award and the 2022 University of Denver Learning Effectiveness Program Universal Design for Learning Award.
Along with teaching, Scott keeps real-world connections through consulting with online and retail companies along with guiding graduate capstones in analytics involving companies that work in brewing, marijuana, transportation, online service, hospitality and other industries.
Before joining the Daniels College of Business, Scott had a varied career. He was an information technology consultant specializing in reporting and a corporate trainer for software package use and data driven report development. His training work took him all over the US and to places like Shanghai, Singapore and Seoul. Scott was also a founder and the president of a company called Astrea Systems. Astrea Systems worked to create a development environment that enabled corporations to send real time data to cell phones before smart phones made this easy. Imagine checking your checking account balance on a flip phone in 2001.
Scott has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has also taken advanced statistical courses in the Research Methods and Statistics program at the University of Denver.
Scott snowboards and bike rides. He is also the assistant beekeeper for his backyard hive.