We're working with art faculty members, the same faculty who are involved in the center in the art school. The NMI joins faculty with other people across the campus that they wouldn't normally work with. There's the synergy that we think is exciting. Yes, in exactly the same way. The NMI will never take over any of the resources of the individual units.
Faculty members stay in their individual departments.
We're supplementing what these people are doing, bringing in more resources. If it were situated within a college, there'd always be a home unit with a bigger role. New media is totally interdisciplinary. It doesn't belong to one field. So the NMI is an independent unit, serving all colleges and departments and reporting to the senior vice president for academic affairs.