In lawsuit filed by California Attorney General, Ashford and parent Zovio were found to have made bogus claims about career outcomes, costs and financial aid to lure vulnerable students to enroll in the online university.
Former San Diego for-profit college Ashford University and its parent company have been fined $22.37 million in a long-running California lawsuit over hardball admission tactics that left some students deep in debt and without a degree.
A lot has changed since then. Ashford University, which at its peak had 80,000 mostly online students, no longer exists. It was acquired in late 2020 by The University of Arizona Global Campus — a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Arizona to provide online higher education programs.Bridgepoint Education, founded in 2005, changed its name to Zovio in 2019 and moved its headquarters from San Diego to Chandler, Arizona. It switched its business model, too.
“Ashford made false promises to students about the value of an Ashford degree, leaving students with mounting debt, broken promises and searching for a job,” said state Attorney General Rob Bonta in a statement. “We’ve won this battle, but the broader fight continues. The court’s findings provide a strong basis for the Department of Education to provide Ashford students with relief from their federal student loans.
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