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  • Leadership
  • | Membership

2022 NBOA Annual Meeting Brings Together 700 Attendees Face-to-Face

The in-person event unfolded in Chicago, while the Digital Pass is available through March.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Endowment
  • | Research

Business Intelligence: Larger Data Sets, Improved Tools

Look for new ways to filter data, create presentations and study endowment data with the latest BIIS updates.
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  • Endowment
  • | Research

Independent Schools Report 25.8% Return on Endowment Assets for FY2021 This item is protected.

More independent schools are exploring responsible investing policies and practices.
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  • Enrollment

Building a Preschool Pipeline This item is protected.

Investing in early childhood programs can help build enrollment, but the effort requires significant management and resources.
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Strategies  

  • Financing
  • | Reports

Financial Reporting in a Flash

Focusing on 19 key financial indicators over nearly 20 years has helped one business officer ensure her school leverages resources for maximum impact.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Key Questions To Combat the Great Resignation at Your School

A deep understanding of your school’s talent pool is a competitive advantage.
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  • Leadership
  • | Membership

In Chicago or From Your Desk: What To Expect at the 2022 NBOA Annual Meeting

Come together with a community of innovative thinkers to reinvigorate, recharge and elevate the impact and value of your role.
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  • Change Management
  • | Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Powering On: Managing Conflict Within Independent Schools This item is protected.

When polarizing issues come to campus, the business office can be a strong force in connecting the community.
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Partnering with Advancement: Accounting Tips

Do your business and advancement offices speak the same language when it comes to gifts?
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  • Leadership
  • | Technology

Other Duties as Assigned: Coaching the E-Team

Esports are like others sports and also not, which is their appeal for this business officer.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Announcing the 2022 NBOA Innovation Excellence Award Recipients

The selected schools have demonstrated creative new ways to approach maker spaces, endowments and a multi-campus business model.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Voices from the Field: Full Stop

Following the stress of the 2020–21 school year, one school experimented with a coordinated, school–wide break.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financing
  • | Salary

Business Intelligence: Fewer Students and More Staff Signal New Paradigms

While enrollment has declined slightly over the past few years, staffing has increased. How can schools offset increased costs?
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Hiring
  • | Human Resources

Hiring at the Cultural Crossroads This item is protected.

Despite significant changes in hiring processes over the past year, implicit bias remains. It can be mitigated.
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  • Facilities
  • | Leadership
  • | Risk Management

Announcing the 2022 Recipients of the Distinguished Business Officer and Outstanding School Support Awards

Every year since 1999, NBOA’s Ken White Distinguished Business Officer Award has recognized an exceptionally active and inspiring individual who has dedicated their career to the support of others within our community. A
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CEO Notebook  

  • Research

A New Collaborative Chapter for BIIS Illuminates the Path Forward

Last year’s collaboration between NAIS and NBOA has resulted in this year’s exceptionally robust set of clean financial and operations data in BIIS.
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Announcing the 2021 NBOA Professional Achievement Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the NBOA Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes the invaluable contributions made by independent school business, finance and operations staff who are not business offi
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  • Change Management
  • | Leadership

Fostering Resilience Among Faculty and Staff

Article by Amber Stockham, NBOA
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Hiring
  • | Human Resources

Risk & Compliance: Diverse Hiring Practices Without Discrimination

Make sure your school’s best efforts don’t run afoul of anti-discrimination laws.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Pandemic

Get Well(ness) Soon This item is protected.

Schools are rethinking wellness programs to drive tangible improvements in staff and faculty wellbeing.
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