On April 23, 2014, the President and Provost signed a 5-year contract with the Learning House (TLH), a for-profit company that provides a variety of services to colleges and universities that wish to develop or expand their online program offerings. We have contracted with TLH for the sole purpose of aggressively marketing and recruiting our existing and anticipated new academic online programs. Our goal is to increase the number of students in fully online programs from our current number of 500+ students to approximately 2,000 in the next five years. In only a few months, TLH has already demonstrated their ability to exceed our original enrollment goals. Their employment of success coaches ensures that Lesley students enrolled in online programs have all the tools they need (both academically and technologically) to achieve their learning objectives.
TLH brings a tremendous amount of expertise to the university. As a result of the implementation of this partnership, Lesley has been able to develop systems that streamline the online student application and registration process for online student. As a result of discussions about streamlining student services, Lesley has expanded its book voucher program, allowing students to use federal financial aid to purchase textbooks and other materials through the university book store. Although still in the early stages of our relationship, Lesley is already seeing significant benefits to this partnership.