Our Future College Graduates' Competency?

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Try teaching Ohm's Law to a group of ex cons and semi illiterates. Or explaining the difference between a SPDT relay and a DPDT relay. Oh yeah, we had some fun!  The joke was that in order to qualify for this particular HVAC school they put a mirror under your nose, if it fogged up, you were in.

[...has left the building.]

It seems Universities are ran like businesses these days. You can't really have a successful business if you don't have a good customer base. And graduating people with a multitude of non-challenging majors will keep your customer base intact.

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I don't know about the professors, but one of the reasons that most of the TAs are foreign is because that is one of the few jobs they are able to have in this country with a student VISA.

When I was a TA at Purdue, the kids used to tell me that I was their favorite TA because I was the only one they had who spoke English natively.  I had those little suck-ups trained to bring me food during labs too.