MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING TEAM TEACHING INITIATIVE

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TASK FORCE

President Mary Sue Coleman convened the Presidential Task Force on Multidisciplinary Learning and Team Teaching in Fall 2004. The members of the task force were chosen from a variety of disciplines and areas of the University. They held a series of meetings during the 2004–2005 academic year and met with the Provost and numerous faculty and staff who had been involved in interdisciplinary team teaching efforts or in supporting team teaching in an administrative capacity. The task force concluded that the University of Michigan should launch a central funding initiative combining new interdisciplinary courses and programs with new opportunities for team teaching.

Task Force Members

October 2004 – September 2005

Philip Hanlon (Chair)	Donald J. Lewis Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rebecca Blank	Dean, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Sherman Clark	Professor of Law, Law School
Constance Cook	Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching; Associate Professor of Education, School of Education and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Jared Feeney	Undergraduate student, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
June Howard	Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Rackham School of Graduate Studies; Professor of English Language and Literature, American Culture and Women’s Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
J. Wayne Jones	Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
John King	Dean and Professor of Information, School of Information
Andrew Kirshner	Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design
Martin Philbert	Associate Chair for Research and Development; Associate Professor of Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
Thomas Perorazio	Doctoral candidate, School of Education
William L. Smith	Minor J. Coon Collegiate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
Mark Tessler	Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director of the International Institute; Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Senior Research Scientist and Director, Center for Political Studies, Institute of Social Research