Wednesday 25 May 2016

The Reasons Leading To Ashford Settlement Agreement

By Scott Jones


The University of Ashford has been on the spotlight for failure to adhere to the set regulations. It has been accused of using false and misleading statements in order to convince prospective students to enroll. The university has since denied the claims but agreed to make Ashford settlement to aggrieved students.

This agreement required an appointment of an administrator. He was required to be a neutral third party. His main work was to ensure that the provisions in the agreement were adhered to. This was to take a period of not more than three years. His main role was to ensure compliance by the concerned party and report the findings for the same to the attorney general.

The settlement agreement made, created a website. This provided an opportunity to former as well as the current students, members of the public or employees to make a formal complaint, submit concerns and to give either positive or negative feedback on agreement compliance status. All these would be submitted to appointed administrator.

The independent settlement advisor is a neutral party. He does not work to satisfy either the interest of Ashford University or that of the aggrieved party. His reason for appointment therefore is to oversee the implementation of the agreement by the both parties. He also ensures that the copies of the reports that he submits are delivered to concerned parties.

The settlement agreement split the payment that Ashford was required to make. Some were to be paid directly to the affected students. These were students enrolled before this agreement was enacted. The other half was to go to the attorney general. His was a discretionary decision to decide on how the funds would be used. He could use the money to make reimbursements to those specific students who were affected prior to agreement enactment.

All students who used the wrong information provided to enroll and did it before May 2014 were entitled to get compensation. The students who enrolled for a program based on false and deceptive option will not automatically be compensated, but will be required to lodge a complaint with the office of attorney general. To contact attorney general, you can get his contacts on the official website.

To the students, this agreement ensures that you receive accurate and complete information that pertains to your education. The terms of this specific agreement ensures that Ashford is warned from; making deceptive, false or misleading information, making any omission on a material fact hoping that the respective students will make decision from the omission, engaging in any unfair practice or using coercive techniques that would make students to enroll or to remain in the University.

As a student, when misled by the employees on specific facts, when you have an issue or concern pertaining to that agreement, you should seek help from the administrator. You have a right to lodge a complaint of the same whether the incident happened before or after the coming into force of agreement. All complains can be lodged with the attorney general. The administrator deals with those that happened prior and those which aggravated the need for having this agreement.




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