Ernst & Young LLP and its predecessors have been in business in the US for more than 100 years. The roots of our firm date back to the early 1900s and to the lasting legacies of two visionaries: A.C. Ernst and Arthur Young. In 1903, A.C. Ernst opened the first office of Ernst & Ernst in Cleveland, Ohio. On July 1, 1989, Ernst & Whinney merged with Arthur Young to create Ernst & Young. We have been providing organizational improvement and related services dating back to the start of our long history as a firm. Today, EY is a global leader in professional services (assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services). Worldwide, EY has over 250,000 professionals based in 728 offices in more than 150 countries. In September 2014, EY merged with The Parthenon Group, a pre-eminent strategic advisory firm to the education sector. Together, we offer institutions of higher education superior end-to-end consulting services from strategy development to organizational redesign and implementation planning to hands-on implementation of new, sustainable business processes and system improvements. We have worked with over 100 higher education institutions whose collective annual enrollments represent over two million students worldwide.