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正文 ARGU39 528字
本帖最后由 jessicamarine 于 2009-11-20 22:20 编辑
Providing an imitation solution, the president's suggestion seemed reasonable on the first glance. However, further analysis reveals several logical problems as below.
To begin with, whether Omini's experience should be called as a success is unknown. The great decrease in house expenditure from the prior year does not necessarily mean that the housing cost last year was lower than the average. It is entirely possible that both the two years housing expenditure are higher than the average for some reason. If so, the cost decline make no sense to the author's suggestion. Even if the housing cost this year is lower than average, the president's assumption that the decrease should be attributed to the increase of long-distance students is still open to doubt. Maybe the base number of long-distance students is poorly small compared to the whole number, making the 50% increase make little influence on the students number, let alone cutting down the housing cost.
Even assuming it's the increase of long-distance students that resulted in Omini's housing cost decline, we just cannot accept the optimistic analogy that the program will also help Humana increase its enrollment and solve the budget deficit problems. As we all know, things are different. The long-distance program's success for Omini does not necessarily mean that it's also a good choice for Humana. Maybe, Oimini is a university famous for economics, while Humana is an engineering college. Obviously, few people will choose a long-distance course for engineering. Or maybe, Omini has a good reputation while Humana is not, In any of these cases we see little chance of Humana's success in long-distance degree program. In fact, it is not wise to limit our attention to the long-distance teaching only, instead we should pay more attention to why the enrollment students decreased and what we can do to solve that. For example, better advertising and enrollment policy may contribute to a more significant increase on enrollment. Anyway, without ruling out these possibilities, the president just cannot convince me that Humana will win an increase in enrollment simply with a long-distance degree program.
Moreover, the president unwarrantedly assumes that the decrease in enrollment and increase in maintenance fee should be accused as the main cause for its budget deficit. However, this is not necessarily the case. Other negative factors such as improper policy,, poor investment, imperfect management should also be taken into account. To sum up, just imitating the long-distance degree program without a thoroughly analysis and effective measure eradicating the cause for the deficit, we see little chance for truly solving the deficit problem.
In summary, the president's suggestion is unconvincing. To better support it, the president must provide sufficient evidence that students enrolled in long-distance program make up a significant proportion and the housing cost this year is lower than average due to that. To better evaluate it, we need more information about Humana, what is it like at all and whether it's courses are fit for a long-distance degree program , etc. We would also need to know how much the enrollment and housing cost problems weighed in the deficit problems. Only in this way can we accept the president's suggestion. |
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