<p>Here’s a point to ponder. Many American colleges and universities try to increase their diversity by attracting foreign/international students. Walk in to the intro physics course on the campus 10 minutes from me, and you will find a plethora of Chinese, Korean, Russian, Indian, and others. Not graduate students, mind you, undergrads. Last spring the freshman general physics course had 560+ students, split between 3 professors. The professors were Greek, Chinese, and Romanian. The 5 TA’s were 4 American and 1 Chinese. The students were from around the globe. Everyone had to deal with accents and language barriers. </p>
<p>aglages, in your ideal university where all the TA’s and professors speak without accents, I guess you only accept American students as well?</p>
<p>I came to a university in a city from a very backward rural area where people spoke more slowly and drawled slightly. At first I hard time understanding my classmates from Long Island, who jabbered really fast with an LI accent. </p>
<p>According to the school website, they require some test of language proficiency TOEFL score before the TA’s get put in classrooms. You have made it sound as if she doesn’t even SPEAK English, which I find unlikely.</p>