The faculty committee at Seatown University claims that free tuition for the professors' children will improve morale among the faculty as well as attract new professors to join the university. They base this claim on a study's results that indicate an increased faculty retention when the professors' children can attend the university for free. However, I believe this argument is not strong because the faculty committee makes sevaral assumptions in their reasoning.

The faculty committee bases their claims on the results of a study, which they assume to be accurate. However, there are often concerns about the accuracy of surveys as a form of research method because it may not yield accurate findings. The survey could have included a biased sample, meaning the professors the survey studied were already inclined to stay at the university, regardless of the free-tuition policy. What if these professors were alumni of the university at which they taught, and thus were more dedicated to giving back to their university?

In addition, if the survey only involved a small number of professors, the results may not be representative of professors in a generalized context. When there is not much data due to a limited number of professors being studied, there is more room for error. If the survey followed hundreds of professors across the nation and still found the same trend of increased rentetion rates when their children received free tuition, then consumers of this research can have more confidence in its results. This repeated occurrence over a variety of different professors and circumstances will likely mean the study is accurate. However, the faculty committee assumed that the study's results would be generalizable to their university: Seatown University.

Another assumption the faculty made was that implementing the free-tuition policy will also attract new professors. Even if this policy did succeed in increasing rention rate among the professors currently at Seatown University, there is no guarentee that this policy would also cause other professors to join the university. Staying in a position at Seatown University is not the same as joining the university. Perhaps already being in the position gives the professor a good understanding of what it is like to work at that University, and they have enjoyed their experience so far. Thus, having the added bonus on free tuition for their children is another incentive for them to stay. On the other hand, a new professor would not have such insight into what working at that university looks like. Therefore, the free-tuition policy may not be as appealing to them as it was for a current professor.

Overall, although the survey shows that the free-tuition policy increased rentention rate among the faculty at Oceania University, it does not necessarily translate to the same phenomenon at Seatown University. The survey could be based on bad research methods, thus rendering the findings inaccurate; or the findings may not be generalizable to Seatown University. Lastly, faculty retention is likely very different from attracting new professors and therefore cannot be connected to each other in making this claim.