<p>No panic needed. Last year’s class was smaller than desired, so this is not an issue of “controlled growth”, but in a way correcting for last year’s smaller class. Yes, we’ve ended up in an “overcorrected” situation, but really, we’ve got the summer to prepare for it. We’ll be adding some sections of courses commonly taken by first year students in order to protect our small class sections and we have plenty of room on campus. Advisors who had smaller advisee groups last year will have slightly larger ones this year, but really, your students will still receive plenty of personal attention. We’re not going to compromise that. Even if (and I don’t know that this would happen, I haven’t done the math) our student faculty ration were to increase from 8:1 to 9:1, that’s still incredibly good. We’re all working hard to be ready for the class, so no worries, please.</p>