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• Scholars studying diversity in students pursuing higher education stress th... moree need for diversity among the faculty and staff of institutions offering such education. It is seen as a way of creating a more welcoming and supportive environment for minorities and of enhancing education for all students. Accordingly, they argue that hiring more Native American faculty and staff is a potential way to help others in the university to become more aware of and responsive to the challenges faced by some Native American students, thereby leading to more effective and culturally competent programs. However, this argument ignores a crucial ground reality. Even though many proponents of the idea discuss variations in cultural orientations among indigenous people, there seems to be an assumption that Native American professors and students share common values and hence teachers of Native American ethnicity are thought to have more insight than their counterparts from other ethnicities into Native American students. But the reality is that Native Americans form an extremely heterogeneous population. Students and teachers of Native American origin can differ in a variety of ways, such as tribal background and level of connection to their culture, and therefore making blanket assumptions about the cultural identity of Native American people who become faculty is just as inappropriate as it is to make stereotypical assumptions about Native American people in general. Accordingly, before any key changes are implemented, it would be reasonable to probe how Native American people who have achieved an extensive background in higher education differ culturally from their tribal communities of origin.Which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with?

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• Chairperson of College Board: We spend a substantial amount of money on com... morepensating fresh college graduates as part-time faculty for introductory courses. However, we can easily save most of this expenditure by giving our final year students, who have themselves studied such courses, the opportunity to teach these courses, which are mostly taught to first-year students. The final year students can be given extra credits and a minimum stipend for this role.Which of the following, if true, provides the best support for the conclusion that the college should not employ final year students to teach introductory courses?

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• Parent: It is as misleading to conclude that decreasing attendance in after... more-school extra classes shows that our childrens academic requirements are finally being fully met in regularly-scheduled classes as it is to reason that teachers do not get negative ratings from students because students respect and admire teachers. The real cause behind the decreasing attendance is that the same teachers who teach the regular classes teach the after-school ones, and students dont like the methodology used by these teachers in the first place.The parents statements, if true, best support which of the following conclusions?

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• Central State College has a very progressive program for preventing... more sexual assault on its campus. Every incoming student has to take a 1 hour course on sexual and dating violence, and there are monthly programs about prevention and intervention. The college recently opened a 24-hour hotline for victims and survivors of sexual assault. To their dismay, in the first year of the hotline operating, reports of sexual assaults on campus went up by 10%. Administrators are confused as to why their efforts to prevent violence seem to have led to more violence on campus.Which of the following might explain the rise in reports of sexual assault at Central State?

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• Mesa College has a long reputation of progressive arts education. It relies... more heavily on donations from its alumni for scholarships and campus improvements. Mesa College has never had an athletic program, and many current students and alumni say that they think this had led the college to put more focus and financial resources into developing first-class arts programs. This year, Mesa College instituted a football program, over the objections of many students and alumni.Based on this passage, which of the following is likely to occur?

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