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  • zero111
    University: Jinan University
    Nationality: 中国
    November 25, 2020 at 5:41 am

    The president of Grove College has argued that the college should begin admitting men to increase the number of applicants and enrollment. While the alumnae association director opposed the recommendation based on the surveys of students and the alumnae and wanted to keep the identity. There are many questions regarding these two lines of reasoning that required further analysis. The argument could end up being pretty convincing or invalid depending on the answers to those questions.

    To begin with, I am going to put forward question revolve around the view of the president. While we are informed other all-female colleges experienced an increase in number of applicants after carrying out coeducation, we still have no information concerning whether the coeducation is the sole reason responsible to the increase. Are there any other possible reasons attributing to the rise? If the answer is yes, for example, colleges adopting coeducation may have also improved their quality of courses, it will challenge the president’s argument. Otherwise, the answer can strengthen the conclusion.

    In addition, some questions lay in the argument of the Grove alumnae director too. Although we can assume that keeping all-female education is essential to identity, whether a salient identity can bring more applications and enrollments is a question. For instance, if the answer is negative, then the identity factor will be excluded in the discussion of increasing applications, thus weakened the director’s conclusion. However, the argument can be strengthened if the answer is the opposite.

    Finally, while two surveys about the coeducation of incoming students and Grove alumnae separately provided information for the director’s consideration, the question of whether these two surveys are efficient needs further analysis. Since the incoming students are all female, their answers may not be relevant to the increase of further applications. The attitudes of Grove alumnae cannot represent the consequence of coeducation as well. Consequently, if the response of this question can prove the efficacy of two surveys, then the director’s argument will be strenghthened, otherwise, it would be undermined.

    To sum up, while both the president’s consideration and the director’s argument seesm plausible at first glance, the questions mentioned above have to be answered or their credibility would be depriveited.