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  • Facilities
  • | Technology

Prepping Your School for Project-Based Learning

Creating student-centered learning spaces doesn't have to break the bank.
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Strategies  

  • Facilities

Strategies: Up and Out: Preparing for a Campus Move

Tips for ensuring the success of your next building move-out or campus relocation. 
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Business Intelligence  

  • Budget
  • | Planning

Business Intelligence: The Independent School Composite Financial Index

NBOA–NAIS partnership will spawn new frameworks for strategic conversations about the financial health of independent schools.
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  • Risk Management
  • | Safety and Security

Preventing the Unthinkable

From the archives: What your school can do to protect itself from security threats.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Risk Management
  • | Technology

Risk & Compliance: Cybersecurity and Master Planning

One of the best times to address cybersecurity risks is before building or remodeling. Do not rely solely on your IT team.
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  • Facilities
  • | Human Resources

Gorgeous Campus Seeks Renaissance Caretakers: Recruiting Facilities Talent This item is protected.

Proactive succession planning helps schools staff increasingly complex facilities leadership positions.
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  • Financial Aid
  • | Leadership

Unsung Hero: Jean Gould, Calvert Hall

The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to business officers who have made extraordinary contributions to their schools and exemplify exceptional integrity, knowledge and motivation. At the end of each school year
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CEO Notebook  

  • Change Management
  • | Culture
  • | Facilities

The End of the Faculty-Owned Classroom: a Win-Win for Teachers and Schools?

There's lots to like in shared classrooms and faculty co-working spaces.
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  • Accounting
  • | Facilities

Fixed Assets, Unpredictable Accounting This item is protected.

Don't be caught off-guard when it comes to your campus's valuable fixed assets, whatever their condition and stage of life.
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  • Facilities

Operation Farm-to-Table

Schools that blur the line between food service operations and student learning bring campus communities closer — and hone their value proposition.
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Net Assets Wins National Media Award

A national publishing and media competition has honored NBOA's Net Assets magazine with the highest award in the category of general excellence for nonprofit association magazines with circulations of 10,000 or fewer. Th
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  • Leadership

San Diego Hosts Business Officer Primer

“A must for new business officer — a great refresher for practitioners!!!” The reviews are in for NBOA’s 2017 Business Officer Institute, and the annual five-day immersion in independent school business and operational i
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  • Culture
  • | Leadership

Unsung Hero: Lisa Carbone Warren, Moorestown Friends School

The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to business officers who have made extraordinary contributions to their schools and exemplify exceptional integrity, knowledge and motivation. At the end of each school year
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Projections  

  • Facilities
  • | Leadership

We’re in This Together. Now, Where Are We Going?

The business officer and facilities director must work as a team in tackling challenges and envisioning possibilities. 
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  • Endowment
  • | Investments

For Schools' Investment Strategies, It's Steady as She Goes

Normalized interest rates, rising equity yields and greater institutional liquidity: These three trends are helping to shape the investment environment in the early days of the Trump administration, according to executiv
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CEO Notebook  

  • Boards and Trustees
  • | Leadership

When CFOs Succeed to the Top Spot

What qualities and experiences make CFOs strong candidates for an organization’s top leadership position?
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  • Membership

Announcing the 2017 NBOA Will J. Hancock Unsung Heroes

The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to independent school business officers who have made an extraordinary contribution to their schools, as nominated by their colleagues. Congratulations to the 2017 recipient
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  • Facilities
  • | Maintenance

Building into the Future: Modernizing School Facilities This item is protected.

Critical decisions about technology interfaces, not gears and machines, drive successful modernization projects. "Whatever big system we're integrating these days involves our IT department."
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  • Contract
  • | Labor Law

DOL Rollback Signals Shift in Wage and Hour Policy

Two recent developments at the highest federal levels could impact independent schools with regard to wage and hour compliance and worker classifications. Rolling back guidance from the Obama Administration, the developm
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  • Culture
  • | Facilities

Designing School Facilities That Enhance Mission

A flexible approach to school space enables students to grow within and outside the classroom.
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