They have certainly noticed that we aren't capable of teaching marketable skills to enough of our students to fill the high tech positions which actually pay good wages.  Instead, each year about 40 thousand of them come to the US on H-1B Visas and make 6-figure salaries at Google and Microsoft etc.  The liberal arts majors manage McDonalds franchises and  the athletes that weren't good enough to go professional sell cars and insurance.