Enrollment & Financial Aid

  • Admission
  • | Enrollment

Worth Every Penny

A Net Assets classic: As new educational alternatives cause even affluent families to balk at rising tuitions, independent schools are enhancing programming and tearing pages from the business marketing playbook.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Enrollment

Are We Obsessed with Quantification?

My first administrative role in education was in student affairs at The Ohio State University. As an undergraduate, I had enjoyed an incredible four-year residential experience, and I wanted to work in a profession that
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Technology

Have You Disrupted Your Classes?

At the 2011 NBOA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Michael Horn wowed hundreds of business officers with provocative predictions about technology's imminent impact on the delivery of education at independent schools. Y
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Culture

A Different Perspective

I have been surprisingly moved by the loss of Robin Williams. While my personal favorite performance was the Genie in Aladdin, I was most inspired by his 1989 role in Dead Poets Society. His character, English teacher Jo
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Employee Benefits

The "Different Time" of Summer

As summer approaches, many of you will see the energy and excitement of students replaced with the very different energy and excitement of campers. Your calendar for the coming months is filled with year-end closings, fa
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CEO Notebook  

  • Boards and Trustees
  • | Communication

Be Guilty of Leadership

I’ve been reading a lot of articles, blogs and social media posts to help identify information for NBOA’s own social networks—information that I think will resonate with our membership. Sometimes I come
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  • Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Charging on the Curve

From the archives: The old concept of sliding-scale tuition gains new currency as schools deepen diversity commitments, combat sticker shock. “We are not a one-size-fits-all industry.”
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CEO Notebook  

  • Communication
  • | Culture
  • | Professional Development

Ripley and Roam: a Doubleheader that WOW-ed

Between sessions at the 2014 NBOA Annual Meeting two weeks ago, I was stopped time and time again by attendees who thought Amanda Ripley’s Monday Opening Keynote was outstanding. Punctuating these hallway conversations w
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