The problem my alma mater faces is an incredible surge in CS enrollment but a fear of a 2000-style pop in which all those students flea the program. IOW, they'

The problem my alma mater faces is an incredible surge in CS enrollment but a fear of a 2000-style pop in which all those students flea the program. IOW, they've got more students trying to major in CS than they can possibly handle but are afraid of hiring more professors to handle the load. That's what they did in 2000 and they wound up having three professors with nothing to do. For a small school of <3000 students, that's a big problem. Their solution is just to make the intro courses so difficult that >75% drop. (Intro to CS in Scala will do that)