The selected schools have demonstrated creative new ways to approach maker spaces, endowments and a multi-campus business model.
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Following the stress of the 2020–21 school year, one school experimented with a coordinated, school–wide break.
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Business Intelligence
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Enrollment
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Financing
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Salary
While enrollment has declined slightly over the past few years, staffing has increased. How can schools offset increased costs?
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Hiring
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Human Resources
Despite significant changes in hiring processes over the past year, implicit bias remains. It can be mitigated.
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Facilities
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Leadership
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Risk Management
Every year since 1999, NBOA’s Ken White Distinguished Business Officer Award has recognized an exceptionally active and inspiring individual who has dedicated their career to the support of others within our community. A
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Last year’s collaboration between NAIS and NBOA has resulted in this year’s exceptionally robust set of clean financial and operations data in BIIS.
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Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the NBOA Professional Achievement Award, which recognizes the invaluable contributions made by independent school business, finance and operations staff who are not business offi
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Change Management
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Leadership
Article by Amber Stockham, NBOA
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Risk & Compliance
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Hiring
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Human Resources
Make sure your school’s best efforts don’t run afoul of anti-discrimination laws.
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Human Resources
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Pandemic
Schools are rethinking wellness programs to drive tangible improvements in staff and faculty wellbeing.
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Projections
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Change Management
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Leadership
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Pandemic
As the average head-of-school tenure shrinks, business office leadership has largely remained steady — and essential to furthering our schools’ present and future course.
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School business leaders can take a page out of improv actors’ rule book to generate creative solutions.
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Strategies
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Human Resources
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Technology
Encourage acceptance of — and minimize resistance to — remote hires or cloud-based processes by engaging in these distinct steps.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
To bring more constituents on board with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, NBOA Breakfast speaker Derrick Gay urges schools to consider the efforts in terms of change management.
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A snapshot of NBOA’s priorities, offerings and operational health in support of member schools during the 2021 fiscal year.
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Your school’s extraordinary efforts have made an extraordinary impact on your school community.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions have continued into 2021, independent schools have been working to support staff, manage emerging risks and further their financial futures. Through this, business office
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Hiring
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Risk Management
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Technology
Amber Stockham: What can a school learn from a social media check?
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Employment
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Hiring
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Salary
A recent flash survey shows that most schools are anticipating wage increases for both new hires and retained employees.
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Independent schools’ rapid-fire innovations over the past two years have required resources, time and most of all energy. NBOA Awards Luncheon speaker Ben Nemtin offers insights on refilling the tank so leaders can keep
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