Which of the Following Can We Infer from Thomas's Rejection

question 317

Multiple Choice

Which of the following can we infer from Thomas's rejection of the claim that ethnic and gender composition of faculty members should be proportional to their numbers in society on the grounds that this would actually eliminate some faculty?

• A) Thomas probably thinks that universities should never get rid of faculty once they are hired because finding their replacements would cost time and money.
• B) Thomas probably thinks that only white male faculty should be fired to make way for women and minority faculty.
• C) Thomas probably thinks that it is unfair to fire a faculty member just because he or she belongs to an identity category that is overrepresented in the faculty of the university as a whole.
• D) Thomas probably thinks that there are not good statistics on the ethnic and gender composition of society to effectively mirror those proportions within universities.

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