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Texas A&M-Galveston Prof.聽Irwin Horwitz, has shaped many young minds in his 20 years of teaching at the university level.

But this semester聽Professor Horwitz found himself doing something he has never done in his two decades in higher education:聽Failing聽, according to KPRC-TV Channel 2 in Houston.

Horwitz cited students' incompetency as young adults getting ready to enter the real world in his email to the class where he announced that everyone would be receiving a failing grade. 聽

"It became apparent that they couldn't do some of the most simple and basic things they should have been able to do,"聽Horwitz told KPRC.聽"I was dealing with cheating, dealing with individuals swearing at me both in and out of class, it got to the point that the school had to put security guards at that class and another class."

But the university has not backed up Horwitz. Vice President of Academic Affairs聽Patrick Louchouarn made it clear that as much as the administration respects Horwitz, the professor did not have the authority to assign failing grades while the semester was still in session. The department head will take over the class until the end of the semester.

"None of them have failed until the end of the class, meaning the only reason a student would fail is because he or she has not performed the expectations for that particular class," Dr. Louchouran told KPRC.

Horwitz's students did not take the message from their former professor lightly.

"Just ridiculous, I had never had a problem in the class," senior John Shaw told KPRC. "I thought I had done pretty well, on the first test and then I get an email saying I am going to get an F in the class, it was overwhelming,"

This episode may reflect the struggle some college-bound millennials face.聽

Politico reports that five years after the Common Core聽educational curriculum went into effect, to be conducive to allowing a smooth transition from high school to college mainly because there is no one-size-fits all definition for "college ready."聽

As states dragged their heels in rolling out education standards, some millennials have arrived on college campuses lacking the ability to engage in close reading, critical thinking, and deconstructing of math problems.

鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be a while before we see a significant change in the preparation level of student, , director of Higher Education Collaboration for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, told Politico. 鈥淭hat would really require that higher education adjust their introductory courses,鈥�

According to Texas A&M Galveston鈥檚 , the university鈥檚 four-year graduation rate was roughly 30 percent in the the 2014 fiscal year. This figure increased to north of 50 and north of 60 percent for five and six-year graduations respectively. It should be noted that the university calculates one-time students who聽transferred聽and obtained degrees at another college in their statistics. There were at the start of the 2014 academic year, according to Peterson's, a college information database.

According to Professor Horwitz,聽his聽students' lack of maturity and disregard for authority were an indication they were not ready to enter the workforce, and there is some research to suggest that may be a problem among millennials generally.

A survey of聽business people, corporate recruiters, and academics conducted by Bentley University titled "," revealed that nearly two-thirds people in these positions thought that job preparedness among millennials was a problem. They held the opinion that millennials should receive a "C" or worse on their preparation for their first job, according to the findings.

鈥淭he recession did substantial damage to the US labor market, including for young college graduates, and we still have a ways to go before things are back to where they should be,鈥� , president of Bentley University, the Financial Times. 鈥淎t the same time, employers in the US have been expressing concerns about a skills gap.鈥澛�