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Budget
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Cash Management
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Planning
Generating long-term projections and ensuring spending aligns with mission will help your school thrive and adapt to changing circumstances.
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Handling increased requests for student accommodations requires keeping an open mind while not altering standards or veering away from mission.
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Innovation is imperative in a competitive marketplace. Successful initiatives require not only creative thinking but also careful choices and clear communication.
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Facilities
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Legal
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Maintenance
Having a payment and performance bond in place can help schools mitigate risk and protect from potential loss.
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Facilities
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Legal
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Maintenance
Whether building new or updating existing space, campus construction can consume more time and resources than anticipated. Early planning, strong contracts and continuous communication can help mitigate risks and keep wo
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Strategies
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Cash Management
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Financial Aid
Three tools to communicate financial aid decisions more clearly may help mitigate families’ confusion and bargaining.
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Admission
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Enrollment
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International
An uncertain political landscape leads schools to rethink their international student recruitment and enrollment efforts.
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Projections
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Enrollment
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Financial Aid
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Planning
The unspoken rules of handling financial aid have changed. A focus on pricing, discounting and NTR will help us secure true financial viability.
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CEO Notebook
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Admission
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Culture
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Leadership
Connecting with prospective families can shed light on your school’s budget while helping families feel confident about their investment in independent education.
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A school at the forefront of “flexible tuition” explains how it’s done and why it works for the school’s mission and market.
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Financial Aid
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Key Enrollment
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Tuition
As demands on financial aid budgets increase, it’s more important than ever that aid programs mirror mission, community and strategic goals. Four schools reinvented their approach to make it happen.
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Crisis Management
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Culture
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Policy
The national admissions case highlights anxiety about getting into the right college — and the risk potential independent schools could be facing in the future.
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Independent schools can help families paying tuition through 529 plans or other less common sources understand when they may need to pay additional tax.
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Celebrating 25 years in the business office, Wolford excels at financial planning and rethinking financial aid and tuition strategies.
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Access data and tools that will help you lead your school to financial success.
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Training therapy dogs provides respite to this business officer, while the dogs she trains help relieve students’ stress.
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Sparks aligned admissions practices with the school’s vision of inclusivity while managing multiple successful leadership transitions at Echo Horizon School.
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Regulatory Updates
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Salary
New salary threshold less onerous for independent schools than once anticipated.
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Improvements to the BIIS data collection platform and The NBOA Financial Dashboard should make budgeting and planning that much easier.
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At each stage of his career, from running a small business to 25 years in the business office, the new NBOA board chair has found strong relationships with colleagues a key to success.
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