Yeah, at most large US universities, that's not really occurring anymore. Maybe the upper division classes in smaller majors, but most of college is a joke now. TAs really do the teaching, if at all. Lecture is not really something that is valued, even by admin. If you get more grant money, you get to teach less, or so I hear. Project based learning, where you actually build a race-car or a app or make a bronze sculpture, does prove you aren't drooling your way through. Combine that with years of using the same test over and over, and you get rampant 'cheating' issues, but I hesitate to call it cheating when the profs are confronted with it and just send out a 'strongly worded email' and that is it. Look, don't be the person at the orgy counting wedding rings. That's 'college' now. It's little surprise that most Eng. jobs won't take anyone without a MS/MSEE/MSME/etc anymore, they know college is a joke too, they were just there like 10 years ago.