The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In this argument, the author is of the opinion that Seatown University should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors so as to enhance their morale as well as to lure new professors. To buttress this claim, the author cites a study conducted at Oceania University. He believes that Oceania University's policy of tuition-free education for immediate family members of professors is the reason for better faculty retention rate. This argument is illogical because it is flawed to a great extent.
Firstly, the author cites a study conducted at Oceania University. The study itself is flawed and limited to only one university. Extrapolating based on study of just one university appears far-fetched.
Secondly, the study does not mention any statistical data. It fails to provide any crucial details like total faculty members at both universities, percentage of faculty retention, age/male:female ratio of faculty, tution fees, scholarships and waivers available etc.
Thirdly, the author claims that tuition-free policy at Oceania University is the reason for higher faculty retention capacity than Seatown University. It may not be necessarily true. It is quite likely that other factors like overall academics, research, students quality, co-curricular activities, pension plans, health benefits etc are responsible for better retention rate.
Lastly, the author proposes that Seatown University should adopt tuition-free education policy so as to enhance faculty morale and lure new professors. This proposal leads to following questions - How would tuition-free policy enhance overall faculty morale? Why would new professors be lured to Seatown University only because of this policy? How would this policy improve faculty retention rate?
To conclude, this argument is not logically convincing due to its poorly associated study and poorly reasoned proposal. To strengthen it, the author should provide well-reasearched study that contains relevant statistical details. Additionally, the author should clearly mention how tuition-free education policy would enhance morale and lure new professors.
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