Remember the world they are entering

One of the great problems/challenges/opportunities when you teach at the college level is staying focused on the future. The college world can too often become internal, inwardly focused. "I did this so they have to do this".... It is a frustrating mentality. Music professors, particularly those who teach students who are planning to perform or teach, really should stay focused on the business the students are GOING to, not the one they came from... To put it more bluntly, I've never once, in my entire professional life as a performer and teacher in multiple cities, NEVER used figured bass. AN ENORMOUS amount of time is spent Renaissance and Baroque music...music very few actual performing or teaching musicians encounter. 
One of the reasons summer festivals, seminars, workshops, websites, blogs and podcasts thrive among classical musician students is simple - THEY DO NOT GET WHAT THEY NEED FROM THEIR COLLEGE MUSIC PROGRAM :) Let's start to think about what students ACTUALLY need to know, and give them what they need to be professional musicians. And for the sake of all that is good, stop teaching dead music.