Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)

Isn't this just part of the broader trend of CS departments switching away from teaching computer science to teaching computer engineering, which in turn is part of the more general trend of colleges becoming more vocational?

LISP dialects like Scheme are excellent for teaching pure computer science because they are the closest thing to executing lambda calculus expressions. Whereas Python is excellent for teaching applied computer engineering, because it's essentially executable pseudocode for imperative languages, and imperative languages are the most common language a computer engineer encounters in the real world.

Yes. One of the biggest complaints that computer science departments used to get from students is that they weren't learning any languages that employers are using.

That's kind of a useless argument. Universities often also don't teach people any web development. In many cases a graduating student has never worked on any real project. If the university's idea is, that the student can learn those things in their free time, then surely asking someone to learn a little bit of Python or another language is not too big an ask either. So which one is it? Learn that stuff at home on your own time, or university should teach it, because it is needed on the job? Then what other things are they not teaching that is used on the job?