‘I Was Fired for Setting Academic Standards’

I wonder why businesses want to hire foreign labor?

Explains why the “Degree required positions” at the Power Company l spent my career at, were populated by complete idiots. The sad reality is that before a degree was required, these positions were filled by people working their way up and the institutional knowledge and associated abilities were invaluable.

I was a research chemist my entire career, over 40 years. I hired young PhD's and other research techs at many levels. The steady decline in the quality of Graduates of American institutions over that period is undeniable, and some of the worst offenders are the Ivys. Some of the PhDs in later years were almost illiterate. I once spent an hour arguing with a newly minted HARVARD PhD about a simple concept she should have learned in her first year undergrad (Henderson-Hasselbach eqn). She insisted I was absolutely incorrect, had no understanding of what pH was and absolutely could not understand the very simple high school algebra required to solve the equation. Went so far as to flat out state that the equation was obviously wrong. I threw up my hands and simply watched her completely screw up two days work. She was there several years and never did perform more adequately than some of the high school grads we used for tech work. And she was far from the only one. There is a reason that by the time I retired the vast magority of the competent researchers were foreign born and often foreign educated, and it was not because they were cheaper (they weren't).

A career path that I desired was teaching engineering. To that end, I chased a PhD while working in private industry. After completing the degree, I was enjoying my job so much that I stayed and did not seek an academic position. Years later I accepted a position as a university instructor at the senior/graduate level as a favor to a friend and business partner. There I was faced with the difficulties of grade enhancement demands, cheating, lying and complaining - mostly by non US citizens. I failed two Master’s candidates for cheating with the support of my department chairman. After two years,I quit. I later found great satisfaction in teaching industrial continuing ed courses to employed engineers who were there to learn, not to get a grade and a degree. I shake my head in grief when I think of the product delivered by today’s universities.

Don't move to Oregon. They have just abolished academic standards.

When one deals with people who've NEVER had to earn anything and lived on the largess of White Society, What the hell do you expect that their attitude would be? The HBCU is a scam and has been so for a great many years!, since Johnson's "Great Society" created all these parasites in the formerly worthwhile Black Communities!

Looks like "The Bell Curve" is correct.

I was employed by a chemical research facility for a number of years. I am a tradesman, fully trained and licensed in my field. My job was to make sure that none of the nitwits at the facility would blow the place up when they made their "runs". I was always busy correcting the mistakes that they made. I wondered where they got their PhDs. We all know what BS means, MS=more of the same, PhD= piled higher and deeper. Fits doesn't it.