Independent schools must innovate, organize and embrace a more holistic — and rigorous — approach to enrollment management, says this leader in the profession.
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Projections
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Enrollment
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Financial Aid
A small college’s strategic pivot illuminates a brighter path forward for struggling K-12 schools.
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Communication
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Enrollment
Engaging the broader school community — notably faculty and parents — to strengthen enrollment.
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How to remain firm when (some) parents think they get to call the shots.
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Admission
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Communication
How to ensure the best-fitting students make it through your admissions funnel.
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CEO Notebook
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Admission
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Financial Aid
Where are independent schools with regard to access and affordability? At the SSS Financial Aid Conference in Philadelphia last week, a panel of four other independent school leaders joined me in discussing this dif
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Admission
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Financial Aid
Financial aid season is around the corner. The case for providing more transparency, requiring more documentation and finding the backbone to just say no as appropriate.
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Independent school leaders often ask me for advice regarding what they should be thinking about to help ensure a financially healthy future. It's a tough and important question, with an answer that's difficult to distill
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CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Financial Aid
Recently, an NBOA staff member heard about an independent school that noted many visitors to its website, particularly the tuition page, clicked away and never returned. The school took steps to raise the profile of its
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Projections
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Boards and Trustees
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Budget
Good data tells a story clearly, persuasively and impactfully.
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Human Resources
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Investments
Is it time to reassess your school’s 403(b) default investment strategy? QDIAs gain traction as options for retirement readiness.
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Strange but true: Schools are beginning to teach students not just to learn, but to unlearn. After reading about unlearning strategies at NBOA member school Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, I'm
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Labor Law
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Policy
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Risk Management
Are your policies and procedures keeping up with new risks and laws?
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Accounting
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Risk Management
Why using COSO’s time-tested framework for internal controls may be in your school’s best interest
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Key Strategic Finance
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Planning
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Risk Management
A dashboard tells you where you have been. A “heat map” reveals your progress toward your destination.
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Risk Management
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Technology
Ransomware is one of the next big threats to school data. “The bad guys are smart but lazy. If I had a choice to go after a school or a bank, I’d go after schools that are woefully unprepared for the skills I bring.”
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The chair of NBOA’s Board of Directors reflects on the not-for-profit difference, the CFO-head of school partnership and the omnipresent topic of financial sustainability.
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Schools are using reports and models that move school leaders away from minutiae and toward mission-motivated planning and action. “We tell a story.”
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CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Membership
I have often written and talked about the unique role that NBOA plays in the independent school community — how we fulfill our mission to provide you with best practices, staff support and technology to advance bus
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An instant classic hits children's bookshelves in and beyond Music City. "Goodnight, Nashville has done a lot to help me be a better controller, professional, volunteer and person in general."
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