A former employee at Colorado Technical University told USA TODAY the college will recruit nearly anyone, even if that means nonstop phone calls or misleading financial aid offers. The whistleblower said he enrolled students who couldn’t read or write at a college level. In a legal declaration, Aidan Peters says he worked for the university from 2016 to 2020. He said his supervisors pushed him to enroll students who didn't have computers to complete their coursework. And some advisers recruited students without GEDs or high school diplomas. But it's the students who couldn't read on a college level that troubled Peters the most. He recalled he would have to walk them through the FAFSA or enrollment forms. Others, he said, didn't realize they were agreeing to enroll and pay for college. The college pocketed their financial aid. “I left because I could no longer participate in defrauding students, which is exactly what CTU required of us,” Peters wrote. “I could not be a part of any more lies or omissions to students to get them to enroll.” Many for-profit colleges are honest institutions that strive to provide a workforce-ready education. But critics of for-profits say they often have poor graduation rates and leave students with more debt. Perdoceo Education Corp., the company overseeing Colorado Technical University, has been enrolling students at its for-profit colleges for decades, with dubious results. “I don’t even feel like I could go out and sit in an interview,” said Chris Glock, a veteran and former student at Colorado Technical University. “It’s very humiliating to go to school for four years and to not even be able to adequately redesign a simple website for a company.” Perdoceo did not return USA TODAY's repeated requests for comment. But in settlements with the FTC and state attorneys general, the company denied any wrongdoing. Peters had hoped the settlements would spur reform, but he said almost nothing changed. Read more on this story at the link in our bio.