re: LSU really needs to do something about these foreign professors.

It's God awful. 3/4 of my upper level business courses have been taught by foreign professors. They all went to Brown, UPenn, etc but can't properly deliver the information. I mean shite, there's no need to study abroad at LSU. Every ethnicity is represented down the halls of the BEC

Give me B Andrews (LSU & Tulane grad) all day every day.

I had a German calculus professor and almost dropped the class right away. I decided to stay in until the first test.

He ended up being awesome. He would let us retake every test with different numbers and throw out the first one if we did better. He also re-opened all the online homework at the end of the semester so we could get credit for any that we missed.

My senior year in EE back in 59 I had an Indian who spoke with very thick dialect. Solid state electronics was a pretty new subject at the time. Not a happy experience.

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It was awful when I was there. Can only imagine it's gotten worse. Can't decide if Asian or Indians are worse at communicating our language

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The Indian accent, while annoying, can still be understood if you REALLY listen (I once had a Management teacher that was impossible to understand if you werent paying attention to every word).

The Chinese accent, on the other hand, is impossible to understand if thick. I once took a Calculus class, and walked out 10 minutes into the first day and dropped the class. Calc is hard enough if you CAN understand the professor. If you can't, forget it.

I had this problem way back in 1998. Chinese Math professor and could not understand a word he said.

Where art thou, O Bill Clark?

He was a legend Back in 90s.
like 70, married a 20 something student.
taught Latin and classical studies.

Rode around in a golf cart at graduation handing out bottles of 12 year old Glenlivet single malt. Still have mine.

Little bit off topic, but as far as TA's go, professors save several thousand dollars a semester when they put an international student on TA versus RA (research assistant). Hence why most of your TA's are international students and most of the domestic students are on RA. It has something to do with fees the school is assessed for the international students.

my first Finance class at LSU we had a guy not one person in the class could understand and no one knew where his tests came from.....Everyone pretty much bombed every test, thanks to a curve I got a B in there, but learned absolutely nothing