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California professor who teaches at nine colleges rakes in $800,000-a-year by holding 30 classes with 1,100 students | Victor Heller, Daily Mail
A new investigation found that professors are playing California's education system by teaching dozens of classes with pre-recorded online lectures, allowing them to cash in big time.
Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal, who teaches sociology, ethnic studies and business, has managed to hold two full-time and seven part-time jobs at different community colleges in the Golden State and made nearly $800,000 in 2024.
Ninh Villarreal is currently teaching 30 classes to as many as 1,100 students, an investigation by CalMatters revealed.
And she is not alone.
There are no rules limiting how many colleges or districts an instructor can work within and no tracking systems to monitor a professor's workload as each of California's 73 districts is governed independently.
This has led to a widespread phenomenon, where more than 70 teachers are leveraging these conditions to their advantage and giving lectures across at least five different community college districts, Cal State or University of California campuses at the same time, CalMatters found.
Sarah Thompson, president of the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, told the outlet: 'Obviously no one has enough time in a week to teach 30 classes and do a good job, so that’s very problematic.'
Another instructor, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, taught around 50 online classes and labs in astronomy to students in various California cities and even at schools in New Mexico, Michigan, Washington and Florida - all from an office above his garage in Michigan.
He instructed as many as 1,000 students in a single semester, which earned him a salary of $758,485 total in 2024, according to the report.
Vanden Heuvel insisted his students still get excellent education from his material, and that he is the only astronomy professor available at some rural colleges. He posts much of his material on Youtube, where he has garnered millions of views.
He told CalMatters: 'Now, did I push it further than some people think is morally conscionable? I don't think so.'
He also explained that 'in its current form, I am not grading anything' but instead all of his quizzes are multiple choice and graded by computer.
Bobby Seals also teaches 14 extra courses at four districts aside from his full-time job as ethnic studies professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. He has about 930 students this semester.
CalMatters listed four more professors teaching 10 or more classes at different campuses, including disciplines such as computer science, psychology, business and art history.
Community colleges evaluate the quality of all courses, but have no insight into the actual workload of their professors.
The Cal State and University of California systems can track employment and limit the number of courses each professor can teach.
But they might not know whether a professor is simultaneously teaching courses at a community college.
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Econ 101? OPM - this doesn’t work long term.
Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
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If Paramount/Warner leaves LA, they'll be fine. Their true value is the IP they own. The infrastructure can be moved anywhere and benefit from lower taxes and cost of operations. Lots can be sold off an rebuilt. Like any corporate move, the executive class can be transferred. The deals they make are vaporware - contracts and e-signs in the internet.
However for LA, it's a death blow. The infrastructure is already suffering with vendors going out of business and crew members quitting. The built in advantage of being a mecca for filmmakers with access to top talent, props, equipment disintegrates overnight. Studio stockpiles of props, wardrobe, cranes, cameras can truck over to Nashville or Austin. Crews can suddenly live in lower cost states and afford homes and schools for their kids. They may have to pray to Baby Jesus a little more, but a little Holy Ghost Power never hurt nobody.
This is not 1986 where you have to shoot below the roof of a backlot set. We can extend and digitally enhance anything. Setting up shop in business friendly, film friendly cities has no downside if the infrastructure truly moves. Every vendor benefits from lower cost of living for its employees, especially the struggling working class that no one seems to give a shit about in these culture wars.
A major studio leaving LA is a nuclear explosion that creates a chain reaction. Eventually other studios start calculating a 0% state income tax.
Rob Bonta has lived a life of academic insulation inside of a political bubble. He has no idea what it's like to set up a movie, try to get on a crew, look for a weekly freelance job in a fluctuating gig economy. No idea how fragile the ecosystem is. He's been sheltered inside of California Democrat uni-party as a kind of legal nepo baby, given expensive real estate with tenants he has never met. Now this incompetent moron thinks he can do whatever he wants with his 3rd Street Promenade.
I miss the Barnes and Noble there. Bonta, you'll miss the film business here.
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🚨 JUST NOW: Anthony Fauci's successor, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, BLASTS Fauci for COVERING UP the alleged 82% MISCARRIAGE RATE for pregnant women taking the COVID vaccine
"Tony Fauci was OUT OF HIS LANE, and used that power to tell America one thing when he really thought another."
"I'm glad his words now can be heard by the American people... it's SHOCKING to me that he was sharing private thoughts and that, when he was out in public—and he was out in the public A LOT—he didn't share those private thoughts with the American public."
"I mean, and Tony Fauci was MAJOR figure in trying to get those COVID shots past the finish line. He owed the American public some transparency."
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Holy crap.
They said the Covid vaccine had a 12.6% miscarriage rate for pregnant women but it was actually 82%.
Fauci and his co-conspirators need to be thrown in jail.
The mandated and doctor recommended COVID-19 shot for pregnant women was effectively an abortion shot according to new documents just released by Senators Johnson and Paul.
“The authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%, but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. This is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. These figures mirror the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486.”
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The 82% miscarriage figure uses an invalid denominator. The NEJM study noted it could not calculate miscarriage risk for early-exposure participants because 905 of 1,224 lacked follow-up data. A later analysis of the same registry found a 14.1% rate, within historical norms. web.archive.org/web/2026031814… web.archive.org/web/2026050512…
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Stephen A. Smith looks visibly betrayed as he reveals he took 3 COVID shots and wore a mask just like Fauci told him, and he STILL got COVID, and it almost killed him.
SMITH: “We were told, ‘Hey, you ain’t gonna get Covid if you do that.’ And I GOT COVID!”
“And damn it, it almost killed me! Going into 2022, I’m in the hospital 90 minutes before the ball is about to drop, and the doctor says, ‘We’ve been at this for three plus weeks. You got double pneumonia. You look really bad. If this antibiotic and this steroid do not work, Mr. Smith, I’m sorry, we’re gonna have to call your family. Looks that bad...’”
“And through the grace of God, three hours later, I felt better after they gave me that steroid and that antibiotic. But those were the longest three hours of my life because I thought it was over.”
“And I remember I had done exactly what Dr. Anthony Fauci was imploring us all to do.”
This is the look of a man who finally understands he was being lied to this whole time.
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SF fined a dad $195 for teaching his kid tennis on a public court without a coaching permit.
The same city has illegal markets covering the sidewalks. All of the stuff is stolen. Every single regulation violated. Nothing happens.
Absolute clown world @DanielLurie
A San Francisco dad brought his kids to play tennis at a public park. Two rangers showed up and accused him of illegally coaching without a permit.
Full story: sf.news/4w6xjn9
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San Francisco did not fine the father. Park rangers questioned him to check for unauthorized commercial coaching, but they did not issue any citation or fine after his children confirmed he was their dad. sfstandard.com/2026/08/01/san…
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The NCAA is in court right now arguing that the 2022 class has no right to a fifth year of eligibility.
The NCAA is also lobbying Congress to pass a bill that appears to say they do.
Section 113 of the Protect College Sports Act says a student athlete is eligible to compete for a maximum of five calendar years, starting when the athlete first enrolls full time or the academic year after turning 19, whichever comes first. The 2022 class enrolled in fall 2022. That makes 2026-27 Year 5. There is no transition carve-out in the bill excluding athletes who already used their fourth season in 2025-26. And Section 119 gives athletes a private right of action to sue if the NCAA, a conference, or a school fails to comply with that eligibility standard. For what it's worth, I checked this against the latest 171-page floor version circulating to Senate offices this week, not the older public text. The eligibility framework is intact.
Those two positions cannot both be true. You cannot tell a federal judge these athletes have no right to a fifth year and simultaneously ask Congress to pass a law that gives them one. If I'm an attorney for the 2022 class, I am walking into court with NCAA president Charlie Baker's own letter to the Senate urging immediate passage of this bill, and asking the judge to explain how this organization can take both sides of the same question at the same time.
The NCAA will probably say "maximum" is a ceiling and not a floor, or that they support this as a future standard, not a current right. But Baker's letter didn't ask for a framework someday. It demanded immediate passage, without delay, because athletes are returning to campus and this season needs clarity. You can't beg Congress to make five-year eligibility the law today and tell a judge it's a disaster if it happens today.
The 2022 class keeps ending up as the cost of every transition. This contradiction deserves a lot more attention.
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Fauci's diary WASN'T leaked, stolen, or hacked. It wasn't even "private." @SecKennedy breaks down exactly how he uncovered it:
“If you do something on a government server, it belongs to the government. He was keeping a diary for the book that he intended to write about his life. And at the end of his term, just before he was leaving, he emailed the entire diary to himself... And that's how we found it, through those emails.
It's not a diary in the sense, like you said, that a teenage girl keeps a diary that's private and has a lock on it. This is a government computer, a government laptop, on government time, keeping this account of what his official duties are and then making private observations about them.
The liberal media is now feigning indignation that we released private diaries and violated his privacy, but that's just a crazy assertion. What they're really doing is covering up this vast media malpractice that took place during COVID, when they elevated this guy to a deified status, who had funded the weaponization of coronavirus, who then had given it to a Chinese military-run lab.”
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BREAKING: Judge Charlotte Sweeney of the U.S. District Court of Colorado has granted a class-wide preliminary injunction that requires the NCAA to declare eligible *all* HS class of 2022 athletes who exhausted four seasons of eligibility this spring.
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Everyone is finally seeing the Stub Scam
stubscam.com
StubHub's CEO has been scalping his own customers for years
Eric Baker is the CEO of StubHub and he also built Andro Capital on the side, a hedge fund that acquires tickets and sells them on StubHub
He also made sure Andro Capital got a better deal than every other seller on the platform:
• Andro Capital: $0 in seller fees (2024-2025)
• Everyone else: 20% commission
In 2023, StubHub ended a deal where Andro Capital had been operating as an inside ticket inventory partner and paid Andro Capital $1,600,000 to do it
He then created Colloquy Capital to finance other mass scalpers buying and flipping tickets on the same platform
The Texas AG, Consumer Protection BC, and two class-action lawsuits are all investigating
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FRAUD 🚨 Remember when Gavin Newsom gave that free diapers contract to the Baby2Baby NGO ran by his wife Jennifer Newsom’s friend
CBS Los Angeles put in records requests for the contract details and bids and Gavin Neswsom won’t release it
- CBS requested the contract and related records including competitive bid scoring sheets on May 12, 2026. 4 days after the announcement
- Governor’s office sent them to California Health and Human Services
- That agency sent them to another agency)
Legally, they had up to 10 days to respond on disclosure, but that doesn’t stop them from not releasing it
- California filled a first extension under an unusual circumstances clause
- After 10 days, invoked a clause for another 14 days to decide on disclosure
This is already 24 days to even confirm they were disclosable
- They delayed again and promised copies in 3–4 weeks after that decision
- On the due date of July 3, the state requested another 2 weeks
- 56 days since the request, the state still is refusing to provided the executed contract, procurement packet, scope of work and bid scoring sheets
Again, this was all supposed to just be simply provided within a few days
Only one reason for this, massive fraud and money laundering
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RUBIO: "Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota. Tim Walz issued him a pardon. This week, I revoked his legal status and as of today, he has been removed from the United States."
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WOAH 🚨 My jaw literally dropped listening to this
The Los Angeles Police Department came and tried to clean up Skid Row and in a response a nonprofit working with Mayor Karen Bass SUED THEM and stopped police from EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER
“LA CAN, which is another organization (an NGO), they get very, very upset and they sue the LAPD when they come and do street cleaning down here. And they're basically saying that their encampments are their Private property. Police can't enter, and they sued the police more than any other organization”
Translation: They are suing to keep the homeless population right where they are so the NGO homeless money laundering industrial complex keeps running
This same NGO has also launched protests to stop Skid Row from being cleaned up
Pure insanity. It’s criminal
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A federal jury in Los Angeles found that Left defrauded other investors with insincere opinions designed to move stock prices in his favor. on.wsj.com/4dK9lIx
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There are several interesting things going on here.
(1) The UCs were long known for their high standards, in particular UC Berkeley and UCLA as their flagships: in general, if you hired one of their graduates (especially an in-state student), you were getting a smart and ambitious employee. This contract is now broken. The signal doesn't work anymore.
When the world updates for this fact, things get worse for them: out-of-state students will be less likely to want to pay the tuition, employers will be more skeptical, and they will have a harder time getting the best talent. This is a negative feedback loop.
It's weird that this happened because organizations are usually much more self-preserving. Universities live and die by their reputations. Perhaps they thought that dropping the SAT and (this is the subtext) admitting students quasi-randomly would gain them political brownie points, but to what end? Looking back: what was the point of all this?
(2) The SAT was the final load-bearing beam in this entire system. High school grades used to mean something, but grade inflation has wiped this out. Application essays? A whole industry of ghostwriters and now AI has winnowed the signal to zero. Teacher recommendations? When they matter so disproportionately much, they'll be bought and paid for. (The failure pattern is the same: much like how the universities have sacrificed their long-term credibility for short-term gain, I'd wager that many schools and teachers have done the same.)
Parents used to defer to teachers and schools as experts, but the competitive environment has made parents become forcefully involved -- threatening, cajoling, bribing to get their students ahead. Schools never had the resources to defend themselves against this.
Many people -- especially those below the SAT median -- probably thought that they would be better-off in a world of no tests, that they'd be able to get some relative advantage. Nobody would know they're in the 30th percentile, and maybe they could sneak by and pass for 80th. That may have been so in the short term, but the price is becoming clear now: the whole system is broken. (This is frequently the case when people try to turn fair games into rigged or opaque ones: the people who think they're going to win because of their new advantage tend not to see the whole picture, and will overestimate their expected position in the new world.)
Maybe you were an activist parent and managed to help force the UCs to get rid of standardized testing. And maybe your low-test kid got admitted to Berkeley. And maybe they even graduated with a 4.0. But you can't keep stacking the Ponzi scheme forever, eventually you get the reality test: they can't get a job and now you're stuck holding the bag on the student debt. A pointless waste.
University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”
“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”
