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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment
  • | Leadership

Advancing the Bottom Line: Integrating Enrollment and Advancement This item is protected.

Integrating advancement, communications and marketing functions can help leaders tap resources to generate alternative revenue streams. Ann Snyder, director of independent and international schools at the Council for Adv
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  • Compliance
  • | Pandemic
  • | Regulatory Updates

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This fall is similar to the one before it only in that both are unlike any other schools have experienced in recent memory. As schools have worked to adapt their policies and procedures again to ensure the safety of thei
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Data Collection Made Easier

Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
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NBOA Leadership Academy Connects in Nashville

NBOA’s first in-person program since the 2020 NBOA Annual Meeting unfolded last week in Nashville, Tennessee. Nineteen participants in the second-ever cohort of the NBOA Leadership Academy met each other face to face, as
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  • Compliance
  • | Pandemic
  • | Regulatory Updates

OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard and Independent School Operations This item is protected.

Article by Amber Stockham, SPHR
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Legal
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Religious Rights and Personal Liberties in Independent Schools

Religious schools should consider how high courts have recently handled the “ministerial exception” when considering issues such as transgender rights and vaccine exemptions.
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  • Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Holding Patterns: Strategies for Student Retention This item is protected.

Schools that experienced a “flight to quality” last year share strategies that have helped them retain new students.
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  • Membership

Unsung Hero: David Wright, University School

Wright shifted University School’s health insurance to a self-insured captive program while consolidating other shared costs.
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Strategies  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid

Strategies: Partnering for Better Financial Aid Decisions

A structured financial aid review process that involves both admissions and the business office can maximize enrollment without breaking the bank.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Every Kind of Leader Has a (Correctable) Blind Spot

Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
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Projections  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid

Projections: The Essential Business of Admissions

It is time to switch our mindset from short-term problem-solving to long-term strategizing.
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  • Membership

Unsung Hero: David Wollam, Winchester Thurston School

Wollam’s negotiating skills have helped Winchester Thurston School expand its campus and foster long-term financial health.
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  • Pandemic
  • | Risk Management

ERM for the (Post) Pandemic Era

Independent schools are carrying significant “risk baggage,” both old and new. Comprehensive risk management can help leaders avoid liability and potential crises.
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  • Financial Aid
  • | Pandemic

Pandemic Tested Financial Aid This item is protected.

Trends and lessons from last year’s financial aid season can make this season calmer and more efficient.
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  • Membership

Unsung Hero: Teresa Standard, University School of Nashville

A financial trailblazer, Standard has modernized every inch of the business office while promoting and enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion.
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  • Facilities

Clean Air: Ventilation Is the Foundation

Ventilation improvements and regular inspections can lower the risk of infection on campus.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

When Politics Knocks, Answer with Mission

Our schools’ missions and values are being put to the test. They should be our guide as we navigate contentious times. 
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  • Human Resources
  • | Performance Management

Four Perspectives on Staff Evaluations

When rethinking staff performance evaluation processes, HR leaders need to function as change agents.
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Unsung Hero: Chad Stacy, Dunn School

Stacy’s financial management skills helped the Dunn School eliminate structural deficits, grow the endowment and remodel the school’s budget process.
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After School  

After School: The Water Is Wide

Plunging into an old passion has helped this business officer approach the seemingly impossible.
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