Good afternoon,
I'm pleased to share that progress continues toward completing the sale of substantially all of EDMC's assets to the Dream Center Foundation. Most of the required regulatory approvals have been secured. The Dream Center Foundation is in process of securing their financing. The largest remaining step is to submit this information to the United States Department of Education, which is slated to occur the week of August 28. We anticipate that the DoE review will take several weeks.
Due to the hard work and diligence of many of you, your peers and your leaders, we remain largely on pace to complete the sale and transition operations within our expected timeframe of sometime late this summer, most likely in September. Several schools, including the Higher Learning Commission and Middle States-accredited schools, remain on pace to close later this year. Our transition team, led by Kim Strohm, put together a transition plan and identified and monitored a myriad of details, ensuring that we continue to efficiently move toward our goal.
The Dream Center Foundation remains enthusiastic about this deal and committed to doing all they can to contribute to closing the transaction as quickly as possible. Together, EDMC and the Dream Center Foundation are working to make Day 1 of Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) go as smoothly as possible. To that end, we will soon begin communicating information about what you can expect as a DCEH employee. There will be a lot of information, so we ask that you be looking for it and carefully consider it so that you are as knowledgeable as possible and prepared for Day 1.
While we have made great strides and move closer to close, we are not quite finished. Everyone has a role to play. As has been the case since we announced the agreement in March, it is critical that we focus on our students and providing the quality education they have come to expect.
Thank all of you for your hard work on behalf of our students and EDMC.
Mark
President and Chief Executive Officer
EDMC