The Best of Net Assets Magazine 2024

Eleven months after the fact, it's hard to believe NBOA's new brand launched just this year. NBOA: Business Leadership for Independent Schools, our new tagline, already feels like a comfortable home. The rebrand was undertaken to clarify what NBOA has always been — a professional home for any employee of an independent school who handles school business. In that spirit, we are sharing a dozen top reaching articles from Net Assets magazine, inclusive of print and digital. If you haven't had a chance to read them, it's not too late! 

• Homage to “The Holdovers”
  A fictional boarding school in the 70s gets big screen treatment, and school business impacts every piece of the action.
  
• If You Finance It, We Will Build It
  Despite high interest rates, independent schools are taking on debt to maintain campus and attract students.

• Inflation on the Menu
  Independent school dining programs leverage financially sustainable strategies to nourish their communities.
• Positive Change in PPRRSM
  An increased percentage of independent schools report having a PPRRSM reserve.
• Preventing Abuse in Athletic Coaching
  Emotional and physical abuse of young athletes calls for a fresh approach to prevention and response.
• Ground Control: Risk in Property Acquisitions
  Before purchasing land or accepting a land donation, understand the financial, legal and local implications.
• Think Before You Ask: Managing AI Risk
  Actively managing AI risk allows the school community to innovate safely.
• Remission Accomplished?
  Tuition remission is on the rise. What does that mean for schools’ sustainability and culture?
• One Record to Inform Them All: Streamlining Data Operations
  Clarifying and streamlining your school’s data operations not only mitigates risk but has strategic payoffs.
• Politics on Campus: Supporting Our Schools, Knowing the Rules
  As the November election approaches, it’s critical to actively cultivate campus culture.
• Overtime Threshold Increases Were Overturned. What Now?
  The overtime rules that many schools have prepared for will revert to earlier thresholds. Here's how leaders can prepare.
• The Circle of Estimated, Useful Life
  Nothing teaches adaptability quite like chasing the school’s runaway rabbits, as this business officer discovered.

Best wishes for a restful break and energizing entry into a new year.