(from KQED News) Change is about loss, says psychologist Robert Evans, in delivering the keynote speech at the Building Learning Communities conference in Boston recently. “Resistance to change is normal and necessary,”
(from Edutopia) While comfy couches, beanbag chairs and movable tables might enhance learning, educators have lots of questions about how to work in a classroom with flexible seating. They want to know everything from ho
Employee Benefits
Leadership
(from McKinsey & Company) What does it take to improve employee wellness? Members of the Consortium for Advancing Adult Learning & Development (CAALD), a group of learning authorities whose members include resear
(from EdSurge) A 2016 study by Kayla Reed, a doctoral candidate in marriage and family therapy at Florida State University, and her colleagues compared students with “helicopter parents” to students whose families allowe
(from NPR WXXI news) Professors have come up with a number of strategies to keep college students away from their phones during class – from using jamming technology (illegal in the U.S.) to public humiliation, personal
(From NPQ) The Gates Foundation’s most recent initiative to help public schools involves a five-year commitment to put $1.7 billion into them. After trying and learning from various strategies over the past 17 years, the
(from EdTech) Connecting with young adults on social platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat is a cost effective way to reach prospective students. In fact, a study from Marketo found that 73 percent of students w
(from the New York Times) Confusion over actual college costs and concerns over mounting student loans have inspired bipartisan legislation — three bills, in fact — aimed at making the cost of higher education more clear
(from Brookings) Minority teachers are underrepresented across much of the United States, including in areas populated heavily with students who tend to benefit most from having minority teachers — students of African Am
(from the Santa Fe New Mexican) Some independent schools in smaller markets are adopting new strategies to strengthen enrollment despite relatively stagnant local economic growth. In 2013, for instance, Santa Fe Preparat
Cash Management
Facilities
(from Accounting Today) Safety and recovery are paramount when a natural disaster strikes campus, but independent shool business officers must also worry about the financial reporting implications of damage claims to ins
Crisis Management
Risk Management
(from the Chronicle of Higher Education) Motivated by horrific mass-shootings on educational campuses in recent years, at least 900 colleges and universities have formed campus "threat-assessment teams" to prevent studen
(from Guidestar) Data-sharing is increasingly important to nonprofit organizations such as independent schools for the simple reason that sharing quality data helps to tell the organization's story to a broader audience.
(from the Chronicle of Higher Education) Add the "lazy river" to the new high-end amenities appearing on college and university campuses in bids not only to attract students seeking escapes from academia, but also to kee
(from Associations Now) A majority of nonprofit organizations rely on an overly casual onboarding process for new board members, hindering the overall board's ability to play a strong strategic role in leading the organi
(from Lockton) Even excluding the ongoing fires in Northern California, the cumulative "insurable loss" from recent storms including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria could be as high as $120 billion, leading to eventual
(from the Hechinger Report) A growing number of small, private, highly tuition-dependent higher-education organizations are teaming up with neighboring schools in a bid to reduce operational costs while expanding offerin
(from The Post and Courier) Enrollment in U.S. private schools increased 7 percent nationally, to just over 4.9 million, between 2013 and 2015, according to the 2015-2016 survey by the U.S. Department of Education's Nati
(from ISM) Is it time to rethink "category discounts," such as automatic tuition breaks for siblings of existing students and for children of faculty and staff? One argument says that when such discounts are offered to f
(from HR Dive) Cost-control is the top concern among employment benefits administrators this open-enrollment season. Regardless of an independent school's health insurance plan, costs almost always rise and schools often
