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These part-time professors make big money teaching dozens of classes online. Are their students learning?

CalMatters found at least 70 part-time professors teaching at five or more campuses, raising concerns about oversight and course quality.

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As online classes proliferate, community college professors have found a hack — repackaging similar courses for hundreds of students at a time and teaching more than a dozen classes in a single semester. Professor Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal has at least two tenured, full-time […]

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These part-time professors make big money teaching dozens of classes online. Are their students learning?

With no limits on how many classes they teach, some community college professors are teaching dozens at a time, making $400,000 or more.

·Sacramento, United States
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Cal Matters broke the news in Sacramento, United States on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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