Are you sure it's not just because your teachers are not (enough) aware of those new features ? Because I work in a University and know way too many colleagues that still use new/delete on a daily basis.
The professor who taught my Data Structures class (who is an exceptionally great teacher BTW) actually uses C in most of his own work, so we even learned a little bit about how to simulate recursive calls using a void* stack and goto. I hope my peers don't go out and write code like that in the wild, but that's another story..
And that void*/goto hack sounds bad, even in C land. That's basically only acceptable in a byte code interpreter.