This is happening other places besides AZ, I think, and that would certainly explain the dramatic increase in college tuition in the past few years.  Instead of just paying a guy, they decide to "overpay" a guy.  It doesn't make good sense but there it is.

http://jw.structure.email/corruption-chronicles/public-university-pays-radical-89-yr-old-linguist-who-supports-hezbollah-750k-to-teach-politics

And people send their kids to these places to LEARN????  Ha!