They need to make a law saying if you teach at public university you must be able to speak fluent English. This should apply to TAs as well.
Or, that if you're "smart" enough to get into college, you should be able to understand another person's accent.
How about being able to write a coherent sentence that matches subject and verb or being able to write something clearly so it doesn't take 4 reading before understanding what the question means. Sometimes I wonder how these guys managed to write a thesis or even passed the GRE.
Well due to the top 10% rule, there are bound to be a few idiots from really terrible inner city schools that get into schools.. But on topic; no, you have obviously not an indian dude for a professor... just terrible.
I went to school in the boonies, and the top 10% rule made sure plenty of our idiots got into college, too.
Oh don't even get me started. I just got my first English speaking economics teacher who I can actually understand this semester. Too bad he is only the TA. It is simply ridiculous sitting in a classroom with a teacher who has a hard enough time completing sentences let alone teaching economics or history or Math. I am about fed up with it. I had a math TA last semester who literally could not speak English. When people would ask him a question, he would write numbers on the board and just point at things, no verbalization.
I don't even know how you can sincerely make that assumption. But let's just play along and assume you're a white guy. That means you probably don't even need a college degree to get a good job, so it shouldn't bother you to begin with.
So what is the "assumption" I made? I was stating an observation of mine; I think it was actually you that made the assumption. You mad?
You need to put the word out by reviewing the class or the TA that you have a problem with. Get enough bad reviews out and the school will do something, maybe they can't change the profs but they can choose to give TA ships to domestic students.
The problem with that is that it is not a small problem. These teachers make up 30% of the faculty at my school at least. It's not something that can simply be dealt with.
Put the name of your school out there. I don't think you can do much about the ratio of the faculty. The fact of the matter is that many professors are foreign. Don't think that these people really want to teach the classes either, they probably just want to do their research and the teaching is just a chore they have to deal with because of the school's rules. You should still complain though, you are not getting what you paid for if you can't understand the classes. If enough people complain about the poor quality of english, the school can at least do away with some of the horrible TAs and hire people with english speaking abilities and communications skills. There are plenty of linguistically capable students looking for financial aid in the form of a TA so the school can at least do that.
It doesn't matter what school you go to whether it be mit or clown u, you still have these profs getting through.
You assumed that I "obviously had not had an Indian dude for a professor." Should your dumb, bigoted, illiterate ass even be in college?
If more Americans would take an interest in graduate school and higher education, there wouldn't be so many internationals teaching labs/classes. For most of my grad-school stint, I have been the only American in my lab. We have some of the best grad schools in the world so lots of internationals come here to get PhD's. I have been a TA for a large organic chemistry class (300 people) at OU and the first day of class the professor asked how many students were pre-med, pre-nursing, etc. and literally everyone raised their hands. Everybody thinks they need to be a rich doctor and everything in life will be great. Don't blame the international people for taking advantage of good jobs in higher education. Most schools have a "teach test" that TAs have to pass in order to be able to teach classes, so don't blame the internationals, blame the school for not having high enough spoken english standards. That being said, i'll agree that language is a problem with TA's and some professors. Being an American TA always scores bonus points with the students
Right.. because you can clearly tell from the confines of your home that I'm not qualified to be in college
