Neuman addresses a meeting of the University's Board of Regents When Michigan started calling in early 1999, Neuman wasn't immediately interested, but she looked at the budget and studied some of the work being published by leading faculty members. They're obviously doing their homework. Maybe you'll learn something you can bring home. Then there is the fact that interdisciplinary projects actually work here. That's very rare in North America.
People give lip service to it, but then they get entrenched in their own fields.
As Neuman nears the end of her first year and a half as LSA dean, she says she has learned a great deal about the College and the University. She is developing plans to build research infrastructure in several areas and faculty strength in several others. Keith Taylor is the coordinator of the U-M undergraduate subconcentration in creative writing .