Passage Summary: The university president wants to cut unpopular classes because he thinks of the school as a business. A faculty member argues that because education isn't actually a consumer product, the president's plan to follow student demand is wrong.

Conclusion: The president is mistaken in claiming that academic programs should be tailored to suit student demand.

Reasoning: The president's justification—that a university is a business and students are consumers—is based on a false analogy because education is not like consumer goods.

Analysis: The faculty member correctly identifies that the president's analogy is weak, but then commits a logical error by concluding the president's policy is definitely wrong. In logic, just because an argument for a conclusion is bad doesn't mean the conclusion itself is false. The faculty member fails to consider that there might be other, better reasons to tailor programs to student demand. Look for an answer that points out this 'error of equivalence'—confusing the rejection of a reason with the rejection of the conclusion.