> a bigger problem is the quality of students completing CS degrees is declining. UC Berkley are seeing it in their STEM departments

The decline in quality of STEM students/graduates is alarming, but the decline in intellectual quality of students is generalised.

Little did Dodson think he was being prophetic when he wrote satirically of Reeling, Writhing, and the arithmetical operations of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

[0] _ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland