Enrollment & Financial Aid

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  • Admission
  • | Financial Aid

Rebranding Financial Aid: A Primer

If your school is looking to increase its socioeconomic diversity, consider these three tuition models.
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Business Intelligence  

  • Cash Management
  • | Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Business Intelligence: Landmarks in a Disrupted Landscape

Schools are considering revenue and expense levers beyond tuition and financial aid to plan a viable future.
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  • Compliance
  • | Enrollment
  • | International

Model Behavior: New Standards for International Student Recruiting

What new standards for international recruiters mean for independent schools — and the agencies they interact with.
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5 Minutes with  

  • Admission
  • | Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Enrollment

5 Minutes with Amada Torres: Changing Faces

What changing demographics mean for independent schools, and how schools can strategize to meet new challenges.
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Strategies  

  • Cash Management
  • | Financial Aid

Strategies: Explaining Aid

Three tools to communicate financial aid decisions more clearly may help mitigate families’ confusion and bargaining.
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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment
  • | International

Global Correction: International Student Enrollment Trends This item is protected.

An uncertain political landscape leads schools to rethink their international student recruitment and enrollment efforts.
13 min read

Projections  

  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid
  • | Planning

Projections: What a Difference a Decade Makes

The unspoken rules of handling financial aid have changed. A focus on pricing, discounting and NTR will help us secure true financial viability.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Admission
  • | Culture
  • | Leadership

Open Houses: Three Opportunities for Business Officers

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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  • Admission
  • | Tuition

Foundations of Flexible Tuition

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
  • | Key Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Reflecting Pull: Rethinking Financial Aid This item is protected.

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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  • Budget
  • | Tuition

Heads Together: Benchmarking for Success This item is protected.

Benchmarking, data analysis and school-wide brainstorming enabled St. John's Preparatory School to moderate tuition increases, adjust revenue and spending, and enhance its value proposition.
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  • Enrollment
  • | Financial Aid

Resources for Navigating a Disrupted Landscape

Tuition models and pricing strategies are focus of continued NBOA-EMA partnership.
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Projections  

  • Communication
  • | Planning

Projections: Data with Depth

Every school can use data in its strategic decision-making if it’s presented to leaders at the appropriate level.
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Where Diversity Meets the Bottom Line

The Gordon School’s individualized tuition model has helped drive a more inclusive and economically sustainable school community.
3 min read

Projections  

  • Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Projections: Our Increasingly Risky Business Model

Numerous factors are pushing independent school leaders to rethink our traditional business model, particularly tuition pricing and financial aid. Change is in the air.
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  • Enrollment
  • | Tuition

Modeling Sustainability: Four Tuition Models to Consider This item is protected.

Changing your school’s tuition strategy may seem risky, but adhering to a traditional model has its own hazards. Four tuition models to consider and case studies in context.
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  • Policy
  • | Tuition

States Vary Approaches to 529 Plans

How have 529 education savings plans changed at the state level since federal law allowed their use for K-12 private school tuition? A new brief explains.
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  • Enrollment

Meet the (Next) Parents This item is protected.

Independent schools may have to work harder than ever before to attract the large wave of young adults beginning to raise children.
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  • Budget
  • | Tuition Remission

Recruit, Retain, Remit: Trends in Tuition Remission This item is protected.

Invaluable for many employees but expensive for schools, tuition remission is evolving with schools' financial models.
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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment

What Every Business Officer Needs to Know About Enrollment Management — a Conversation

From the November/December 2018 Net Assets magazine, with expanded online-only content.
13 min read

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