La Salle Extension University

La Salle Extension University (LSEU), also styled as LaSalle Extension University, was a nationally accredited private university based in Chicago, Illinois. Although the school offered resident educational programs in classes and seminars their primary mode of delivery was by way of distance learning. LSEU was in operation from 1908 until 1982.

La Salle Extension University was founded by Jesse Grant Chapline in 1908, and was incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois. It was originally located at 4046 S. Michigan Avenue (41st Street & Michigan). Early courses were business-oriented and included accounting and law. By 1911, LSEU was advertising that over 10,000 students had enrolled.

The university was an early pioneer in distance learning. LSEU was accredited by the National Home Study Council and the State of Illinois to grant academic degrees for completion of distance study programs. LSEU focused on business and vocational training, offering Associate's degrees and Bachelor's degrees, as well as a Bachelor of Laws degree during much of its operation.

In 1937, the Federal Trade Commission ordered that LSEU cease and desist from representing that the school was a university. The FTC found that "while many of the respondent's courses of instruction were of college grade, the institution itself was not a university and did not possess the qualities and attributes considered by educators and the public generally as requisites necessary to be possessed by an institution to make it a university or to entitle it to be designated as such." The restrictions were eased a year later.

In 1944, LSEU relocated its administrative offices to the Chicago Loop at 417 S. Dearborn Street.

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company acquired Macmillan Company in 1960. In 1961, Crowell-Collier acquired LSEU.

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