California professor teaches 30 classes across 9 colleges for $800K/year using pre-recorded lectures
alvelda · x · 2026-11-15
A CalMatters investigation found California community-college instructor Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal held 2 full-time and 7 part-time jobs across nine colleges, earning nearly $800,000 in 2024 by teaching 30 classes to as many as 1,100 students — powered by pre-recorded online lectures. She is not alone.
Commentator alvelda quipped this is "an industry already set up for AI disruption": lecture-by-recording, credit-at-scale teaching is exactly the segment most vulnerable to replacement, and the case exposes loopholes in online-education incentives.
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