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I'm reading part of the problem is getting good teachers, because the tech industry wants them as well. Would the tech industry be willing to cooperate with universities and help pay for teachers / make them available to give classes? It's their future employees after all.

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At my school almost all of the electives where taught by people in industry.

They either taught a 2 course long elective and offered internships at their company during the second course (Hey you spent the last 5~ months training these people and no you know who is a good worker), or they taught one elective and offered internships to the students they liked at the end.

Their companies paid them to do this for... obvious reasons.

I've always really enjoyed teaching people about programming topics at work and I've often wondered about trying to volunteer at the local high school or something, but having a wife who has worked as a teacher and a mother who is a college professor I have zero illusions about how much work it takes to do this well. I'd need a pretty significant amount of support from an employer to even consider this and I've never worked for an employer that I think would have supported it to that degree. It's probably something I'll never do despite being interested in it because it would be too much effort.

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