Biographical Information
Terry Ross is the Program Manager for e-Learning at the University of Baltimore and works in the the e-Learning Center, which maintains UBOnline, UB's online campus. The University's
webMBA program was the first AACSB-accredited, fully-online MBA program
in the world, and has been called "one of the best" by U.S. News. In the Fall of 2001, the University unveiled its
webBachelor's
program, which offers upper-division undergraduates the opportunity to earn a BS in Business, while UB's webMPA
program provides online delivery of an NASPAA-accredited M.P.A. degree.
Terry has also been an Adjunct Professor
of Management Information Systems at the University's Merrick School of
Business.
He has lived in Chicago and Baltimore, and
his ideal city would combine the summers of the former with the winters of
the latter.
Educational background
Terry has earned both a B.A. in
Philosophy and an M.A. in
Creative Writing from the University of
Illinois, Chicago; an M.A. in English Literature
from Johns Hopkins, and an M.S. in Management
Information Systems from the University of Baltimore.
Previous work experience
Terry has worked in the University's
Web Teaching Lab, a forerunner of the e-Learning Center. He has taught English and Composition at the
University of Illinois, Chicago; Johns Hopkins in Baltimore MD; and
for five years at Hood
College in Frederick, where his English courses included Shakespeare,
17th-Century Literature, Modern Irish Literature, and survey courses.
He has also been a free-lance writer and an extra
on television.
Other Internet experience
In addition to his work, Terry manages these
sites, each of which is the home to a cluster of highly informational pages:
- The Shakespeare
Authorship Page, which Terry co-manages with David Kathman,
is the principal site on the Internet dedicated to
demonstrating that the plays and poems generally attributed to William
Shakespeare were indeed written by him. Articles on this page have become
required reading for many High School and College English courses around
the world, and the New York Times lists Terry and Dave as
two of the four writers in a "formidable cadre" devoted to defending the
traditional attribution.
- The Baltimore
Bird Club home page, which has been named a "Best of the Web" site by
Bell Atlantic and "the best bird club web site" by
Thayer Birding Software,
was the first birding page in Maryland and remains the most
popular.
- The Backyard
Birding Page, which was the first page on the Internet dedicated to
providing information about how to attract, feed, and house wild birds.
Wild Wild Web
described the site as "an excellent one-stop source of information."
In all, Terry's pages average over 3500 total hits a day.
Hobbies and Interests
Terry is an avid birder, and a past President
of the Baltimore Bird Club.
He is also both a Civil War and an opera buff, has visited most of the
major league baseball parks in the East, and spends more time online than is good
for him.
This page is maintained by Terry Ross, who can be reached at tross@ubalt.edu. This
page
was last updated on June 8, 2006. I don't always refer to myself in the third person.
