When I was in college, back in the late 1990s, my university hired a new professor in the Computer Science department. He had 2 PhDs. In addition to wanting u

When I was in college, back in the late 1990s, my university hired a new professor in the Computer Science department. He had 2 PhDs. In addition to wanting us to copy and paste all of our C++ code into Microsoft Word, blow the font up to 32 point size, and print it out in order to hand it in, he taught us the incorrect way to use cin, assigned homework to use it, and then informed the class that if you looked the answer up in the book and your code worked, you would get an F for not following his instruction. Needless to say, I and a group of my fellow students went immediately to the department chair. He was fired shortly thereafter. He was an astounding example of total incompetence. I decided to look into these "2 PhDs" he was supposed to have. Both were from Bangalore University. It didn't take much to find their CS department website (which looked like it had been built by an elementary school kid) and the academic requirements necessary to get such a degree. To get a basic CS bachelor's degree you needed high school level math and 2 classes about CS. To get a PhD you needed a full year. As far as I could tell the school had a good medical program, and decided to open a Computer Science diploma mill on the side. I was stunned. Some good came of it, though. After that, every prospective candidate to become a new professor had to give a presentation to upperclassmen on a topic of their own choosing and submit to being questioned by the upperclassmen. To replace the inept man with 2 PhDs we hired a guy who only had a Masters degree but who had several years experience in the industry, so he could bring some manner of "this is how its ACTUALLY done in the real world" to things. Worked out great, at least from a students perspective.