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  • Communication

Marketing Is Key Business Leader Skill

(From Marketing Advice for Schools) The Institute of School Business Leaders identified marketing as a skill on par with human resources, finance, procurement and infrastructure in a recent presentation. Marketing is not
  • Cybersecurity

  • Risk Management

  • Technology

Quantifying Cybersecurity Risk

(From Ars Technica and FEI) Despite several large-scale malware attacks that have affected school systems and public entities across the nation in the past few years, many institutions haven't heeded warnings about beefi
  • Enrollment

Brexit Stirs Up Independent School Markets

(from the New York Times) One consequence of the ongoing Brexit debate, whose deadline has been extended until late October, is that British private schools are suffering declines in enrollment and having to change their
  • Leadership

Public Preschools on the Rise

(From The Hechinger Report) Local residents are footing the bill for better preschool programs in several cities across the country, drastically bringing down the costs. For example, the average cost of center-based care
  • Culture

Diversity Beyond the Checkbox

(From Stanford Social Innovation Review) When organizations employ "diversity checkboxes" to increase representation of the underrepresented, for example, by simply increasing the number of diverse employees on staff, th
  • Planning

3 Signs of Financial Difficulty

(From Inside Higher Ed) Accreditation cannot be taken as a signal of long-term financial health because accreditors often do not indicate financial trouble in their reports until a year or two before a college or univers
  • Enrollment

Bouncing Back After a Low-Yield Year

(from EAB) In the last several years, fewer than 40 percent of college admissions directors have hit their targets on May 1, traditionally deposit day. Three tips to bounce back and make strategic adjustments to avoid co
  • Facilities

Getting into Hot Water Heating

(From Chronicle of Higher Education) Two years ago, Dartmouth College set a 2025 deadline for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in half, and also for replacing the No. 6 fuel oil that fuels its steam plant — which burns s
  • Human Resources

Case Study: Unified HR

(From Higher Ed HR Magazine) University of California, Irvine, recently unified its HR department to enable the organization to interpret and apply policies and practices consistently, reduce redundancies, leverage best
  • Tuition

Most College Students Would Choose Lower Tuition over Prestige

(from Newsweek) A recent poll found that when it comes to ROI on college tuition, most students think a prestigious name isn’t worth the price. The choice between a prestigious school with a hefty price tag and a lesser-
  • Facilities

  • Risk Management

Junkyard or Playground?

(From The New York Times) Kids get to play freely in The Yard, a new "adventure playground" on New York’s Governors Island. One of only about 1,000 such play yards in the world, it is filled with what looks like junk — o
  • Culture

  • Facilities

School Design Affects Workplace Design

(From BDC Network) The key to office design is to connect to the human needs of the staff, while creating an environment that reinforces the values of the business. The youngest of our workforce today bring with them the
  • Leadership

Using Data Enterprise-Wide

(From McKinsey Digital) An ability to manage data as an asset across an entire organization is key to a successful business venture, according to Anil Chakravarthy, the CEO of Informatica, one of the world’s largest prov
  • Human Resources

Gender Equality as Retention Tool?

(From Quartz) Gender equality in the workplace is arguably one of the most important ways to attract and retain employees, invest in long-term financial growth and act as an employer of integrity. Quartz media, the Harva
  • Leadership

Lax Standards Spur Growth of Low-Performing Private Schools

(From Reveal News) A recent investigative report showed that Louisiana’s $40 million-a-year state-funded voucher program has spawned new private schools of questionable value. While public schools must meet rigorous stan
  • Risk Management

Rules for Handling K-12 Sexual Misconduct Allegations in Debate

(from the New York Times) U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is working to overhaul federal rules on sexual misconduct that will impact not only college campuses, but also public elementary and secondary schools, where
  • Leadership

3 Drivers of Financial Innovation

(From FEI Daily) To drive financial innovation and execute new ideas, consider these three points: 
  • Financial Aid

  • Tuition

Average College Discount Tops 50 Percent

(From Inside Higher Ed) As college enrollment declines nationally, colleges are discounting tuition to recruit and retain more first-year students. The 2018 NACUBO Tuition Discounting Study, which reports final discounti
  • Leadership

Strategic Planning Tips

(from Chief Executive) Six tips to creating a strategic plan that is useful to everyone in an organization:
  • Culture

Advisory Programs Can Help Identify Depressed Students

(from ISM) Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers, according to a recent report in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. The number of attempted or considered suicides among adolescents has risen sharpl