A whistleblower lawsuit accusing Colorado Technical University of artificially inflating how much educational content it provides students will move forward after a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the complaint earlier this month. The suit, brought by an anonymous former employee, alleges that the for-profit college defrauded the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately failing to provide students with the number of learning hours needed to meet federal financial aid requirements. However, Senior U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson dismissed the lawsuit’s claims against CTU’s sister institution, American InterContinental University, as well as its publicly traded parent company, Perdoceo Education Corp. The whistleblow’s attorneys plan to push further for Perdoceo’s inclusion.
