California community college instructors at multiple institutions teach dozens of online classes simultaneously, earning high annual compensation in some cases. One report says some professors teach across several colleges at the same time, with more than 70 instructors working at five or more colleges.
The coverage highlights a policy gap around online teaching capacity. One outlet emphasizes the scale of concurrent instruction and the resulting earnings, describing a practice where instructors may take on large teaching loads. Another outlet focuses more directly on whether the structure of rules—or lack of them—affects oversight and raises questions about student learning.
Across the two reports, the central difference is framing: one leads with the size of compensation and the number of simultaneous classes, while the other foregrounds accountability and the absence of clear limits for how many classes professors can teach at once.
