Enrollment & Financial Aid

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Feature  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid
  • | Tuition

NTR FTW (For the Win): A Case Study This item is protected.

Implementing a net tuition revenue model and reconceptualizing financial aid helped Moses Brown School return to full enrollment.
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  • Enrollment
  • | Hiring

Room To Grow: Creating an Affordable Micro-School

Lakeside School opened a no-frills micro-school that offers competitive teacher salaries and a tuition that is about half of neighboring independent schools. Lakeside School is one of three schools to receive this year's Innovation Excellence Award.
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  • Change Management
  • | Enrollment

Room To Grow: Learning Labs as External Revenue Streams

Bennett Day School developed a project-based learning lab that has helped generate non-tuition revenue and expand its PK-12 program. Bennett Day is one of three schools to receive this year's Innovation Excellence Award.
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  • Cash Management
  • | Financial Aid

Business Intelligence: Pandemic Predictions and Outcomes in School Finance

Mid–2020, business officers predicted a bumpier outcome for FY21 than came to pass. Deficits and cash draws were smaller, while aid awards were higher.
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  • Enrollment
  • | Technology

Engaging Online Learners for Greater Financial Sustainability

Expanding online curriculum can also promote on-campus engagement opportunities.
4 min read
  • Enrollment
  • | Leadership

The Possibilities of Partnerships

Be it with a local college or business, a partnership may enable your school to offer distinctive opportunities that enhance value proposition and/or develop new revenue streams.
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  • Enrollment

Building a Preschool Pipeline This item is protected.

Investing in early childhood programs can help build enrollment, but the effort requires significant management and resources.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financing
  • | Salary

Business Intelligence: Fewer Students and More Staff Signal New Paradigms

While enrollment has declined slightly over the past few years, staffing has increased. How can schools offset increased costs?
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  • Communication
  • | Marketing
  • | Risk Management

Is Your Marcom Office Ready for the Latest Privacy Changes?

The way we track email campaign metrics is going to change.
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Mission & Motivation  

  • Enrollment
  • | Leadership

Mission & Motivation: Partnerships That Raise Our Profile

Creating joint programs with related organizations has helped differentiate our school in a competitive market.
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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment

5 Minutes With Jenna Rogers King: To Test or Not To Test? This item is protected.

What business officers need to know about the admissions testing debate, the best of virtual admissions processes and potential iterations for online learning.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Research
  • | Tuition

Business Intelligence: Benchmarking for Small Schools

Modest changes that might not phase larger schools can impact smaller schools significantly.
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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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  • 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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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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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.
8 min read
  • 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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Business Intelligence  

  • Research
  • | Tuition

Business Intelligence: Closing the Gap

To mitigate financial risk, focus on closing, rather than filling, the gap.
5 min read

Projections  

  • Financial Aid
  • | Tuition
  • | Tuition Remission

Projections: Tuition Discounting in Unprecedented Times

As the pandemic drives more students to independent schools, business officers need to focus on big-picture strategies for tuition policies and other factors.
7 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Research
  • | Tuition

NBOA Schools Netting 82 Cents on Sticker Price

The data in NBOA’s new Tuition Discounting Report for PK-12 Independent Schools may not be as troubling as related data in higher education, but it is trending in the same direction.
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