As there will be more space available, are there plans to increase class size or faculty size at the Knight Center?
The current MBA class size of roughly 380 students per class is not expected to change. We do believe executive education will continue its growth trend. By building classrooms with variable seating versus the fixed seating we have today, we will add flexibility to how many people are in each room at a given time and will alleviate many current scheduling obstacles. The new curriculum created seminars in Critical Analytical Thinking (CAT) along with faculty advising, and a larger number of core sections to provide students with more choices. We continue to increase the number of co-taught classes where we team a tenure line faculty member with a lecturer with great results. The number of active emeriti faculty is also expected to increase as some of our long time favorite faculty start to retire in the next few years. Many of them will remain active in the School and continue to need usable office and research space while we will also need space for new faculty.
