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And an interesting word for all of you highly educated parents out there - for all that you are pushing to get into top colleges and then paying,  have you any idea who is actually teaching your college aged undergraduate.  Let's see who could it possibly be???

- A graduate student in a Teaching Assistant slot - English speaking if are lucky and at least with a knowledge of the subject matter.

- A newly minted foreign young professor with limited English capacity and a lot of pressure to get research going and a lab set up in at least many of the STEM fields

- A random adjunct brought in to fill a slot at around $6,000 a course or so and quite possibly earning less than the TA

- Finally, better yet a "hanger on" around the department or school who is not on tenure track and will do anything that is teach anything to stay around.....

And why - because in most top colleges which are also research university, guess what is at the very, very bottom of the tenure track evaluation?  And if your kids seem to mention that their classes do not seem to be going down as they move on to junior status, then you can bet your good old hard earned dollars, it is because the university is funding and educating the foreign graduate students on the backs of your hard charging sons and daughters.   Things will not improve until parents start to look a it deeper into what their children are getting for their money.  [b]This is one aspect of the immigration issue on the higher education end that is never dealt with. Why do American companies seek foreign graduate students to remain here for open slots, rather then pressuring American colleges to better prepare American undergraduates for grad school and the jobs.

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