John Fritz

John Fritz is Assistant Vice President for Instructional Technology in UMBC's Office of Information Technology. He is responsible for UMBC's focused efforts in teaching, learning and technology and has been the primary information architect and content developer of UMBC's web site since 1997.Before joining OIT in 1999, John served as UMBC's director of News & Online Information for four years, and has more than 10 years experience as a public information officer, writer and editor in three University of Maryland campuses. He teaches a class in "web content development" for UMBC's English and Information Systems Departments, and has taught part-time for several years. John holds an M.A. in English (with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition) from the University of Maryland, College Park (1989), a B.A. in English and religion from Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland (1985), and a Certificate in New Media Publishing from the University of Baltimore (2002).