(from Pensions & Investments) Independent school endowments returned an average net 25.8% for the fiscal year ended June 30, according to an annual study from Commonfund Institute and the National Business Officers A

(From SHRM) As millions of workers have quit their jobs during the Great Resignation and employers compete to fill open positions, the subsequent surge in hiring has led to a boom in employment background checks. HR expe

(From The Washington Post) In an effort to improve students’ understanding of how to manage their personal finances, Florida lawmakers are considering making a financial literacy course a requirement for high school grad

(From The Washington Post) In many states, virtual charter schools drove the outsize growth in charter school enrollment during the 2020-2021 academic year, according to a report from the National Alliance for Public Cha

(From Forbes) The booming stock market of late 2020 and early 2021 produced an exceptional year for college endowments of all sizes, according to a new report by TIAA and the National Association of College and Universit

(from Venable) Besides receiving what is hoped to be sound and constructive advice, the use of legal counsel by human resources (HR) departments and in-house counsel on HR matters may have the additional benefit of prote

(from NACUBO) The National Association of College and University Business Officers convened six leaders to discuss how their use of data has changed since the pandemic began. The conclusion was the need to use data to su

(from Venable) Independent schools hold a significant amount of data. Information regularly collected by schools includes Social Security numbers, financial aid information, student medical information, and donor informa

(from EdWeek) In the early days of the pandemic, Derek Richey, the chief financial officer of the Cleveland School District, created a doomsday plan in case a financial levy failed, to cut nearly 12% of the district’s $1

(from the Chronicle of Philanthropy) Two new studies from the Lilly School at Indiana University make the case for nonprofits to boost investments technology, including video and social media, to attract and retain donor

(from Inside Higher Ed) Racist text messages from one Occidental College student to another — including one declaring, “all Asian people need to die” — have created a firestorm at the private liberal arts college, with m

(from EdWeek) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has canceled a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee, which was scheduled for this week. The panel of independent experts was going to consider whether to recommend

(From Harvard Business Review) Handling incidences of employee frustration in a team is a normal part of any manager’s job. Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools across the country online, leaders are faci

(From The Wall Street Journal) In a sign of just how popular hybrid arrangements have become in the second year of the pandemic, 95% percent of people surveyed want flexible hours, compared with 78% of workers who want l

(From CNN) As schools scramble to find enough substitute teachers to keep classrooms running through the latest surge of the coronavirus, some experts warn there are longer-term problems with the teacher pipeline. For on

(From Edweek) The wide availability of vaccines and the apparent cresting of a steep wave of new virus cases has led leaders in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon to call for ending universal school mask requir

(From Chalkbeat) While some districts have laid out detailed plans for how they intend to use federal COVID relief funds, others are much more vague, according to Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab, a school

(From SHRM) For the first year in more than a decade, the percentage of engaged workers in the U.S. declined in 2021. According to Gallup, only 34% of the 57,022 full- and part-time employees surveyed by the analytics an

(From Inside Higher Ed) The way schools are managing their organization's social media strategy has changed over the course of the pandemic, opening the door for new approaches to video content that can take prospective

(from Teibel Educational Consulting) NBOA President and CEO Jeff Shields spoke with educational consultant Howard Teibel on the "Navigating Change" podcast about what independent schools have learned in the past two year