Strategic Education, Inc.

Welcome to Strategic Education's first quarter 2021 results conference call. I will now turn the call over to Therese Wilkie, Manager of Investor Relations for Strategic Education. Mrs. Wilkie, please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Strategic Education's conference call in which we will discuss first quarter 2021 results. With us today are Robert Silberman, Executive Chairman, Carla McDonald, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Daniel Jackson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following today's remarks, we will open the call for questions. Please note that this call may include forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of assumptions, uncertainties, and risks that strategic education has identified in today's press release that could cause actual results to differ materially. Further information about these and other relevant uncertainties may be found in Strategic Education's most recent annual report on Form 10-K, the 10-Q to be filed, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as Strategic Education's future 8-Ks, 10-Qs and 10-Ks. Copies of these filings and the full press release are available for viewing on the website at strategiceducation.com. And now I'd like to turn the call over to Rob. Rob, please go ahead.

Thank you, Therese, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This first quarter earnings report coincides with the one-year anniversary of the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This report also coincides with a point in the calendar at which we have a good view of the first half of the year and we start to get a sense of the second half. As such, we're going to go into a little more detail this morning than we normally do on both our individual segment results and also on our outlook for the balance of the year. Carl will walk us through both the segment results and the forecast. Dan has a couple of detailed comments on the Q1 financials, and then I'll make some concluding remarks before we open it up to questions.