Canyon Institute, "Ashford is considered a predatory institution with a history of students dropping out or transferring with huge amounts of debt." As part of the transfer of ownership, University of Arizona Global has a service agreement with Zovio. According to the agreement, Arizona Global "will pay to the Company services fees equal to the Company's direct costs to provide the services plus an additional amount equal to 19.5% of Global Campus's tuition and fees revenue." Zovio continued to lose more money as enrollment at the newly branded University of Arizona Global Campus declined. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education "recent disclosures by Zovio also suggest enrollment struggles lie ahead for America's newest mega-university, at least in the short term." Lawsuits and accreditation issues In 2021, the university's parent company agreed to resolve an inquiry by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office through an Assurance of Discontinuance regarding Ashford University students. More specifically, the company agreed to pay the Massachusetts Attorney General $295,120 and to stop collecting written off balances that former Ashford University students in Massachusetts owed to the school. The university also received $564,001 from the American Rescue Plan. In July, UAGC"s accreditor, WASC, notified the school that it had "strong concerns that the targets set for academic improvement” at the school “are seriously inadequate to reach levels of student outcomes that should be expected at an accredited institution.” In December 2021, a California trial against Ashford University and Bridgepoint Education is underway. The California Attorney General alleges that Ashford University and Zovio engaged in "unlawful business practices": providing "false and misleading information to students to persuade them to enroll in the school" and "illegal debt collection practices when students struggled to pay their bills." Leadership The current President of University of Arizona Global Campus is Paul Pastorek, a former Superintendent of Louisiana Public Schools and an advocate for charter schools. Funding and student aid The former Ashford University received approximately 95% of its money from the US federal government, including $41 million from military tuition assistance and $26 million from GI Bill funds. Ashford University has partnered with more than 100 companies to offer tuition discounts and a limited number of full-tuition grants. Partner companies include T-Mobile, Bridgestone, Hewlett Packard, Zurich Insurance Group, and Comcast. More than 1,000 students used the full tuition grant to get a degree at Ashford. Academics According to the National Center for