JOHN ZUBIAZARETTA is professor of English and director of honors and faculty development at Columbia College, South Carolina. A Carnegie Foundation/Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the year for South Carolina, he has also earned awards and recognition for teaching and scholarly excellence from the American Association for Higher Education, the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, the national United Methodist Board of Higher Education, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, and other educational organizations.
John is a frequent conference presenter and consultant on improving college teaching, learning, and academic leadership, and he has mentored educators nationwide and internationally on developing teaching and administrative portfolios. His work on portfolios—often in collaboration with Peter Seldin—include many articles and chapters in journal and book publications such as The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching; The Department Chair; Phi Delta Kappan; Seldin’s Changing Practices in Educating Teaching (1999), The Teaching Portfolio, Second Edition (1997), Improving College Teaching (1995), Successful Use of Teaching Portfolios (1993); Roth’s Inspiring Teaching (1997); and Wright’s Teaching Improvement Practices (1995). He has also contributed to Seldin and Higgerson’s The Administrative Portfolio (2002).