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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Lessons from a Musical Genius

Three takeaways from Stephen Sondheim’s storied career can help independent schools face another challenging year — with verve.
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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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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

2022 NBOA Annual Meeting: Capacity for Audacity: Jade Simmons

Renowned pianist and opening keynote speaker Jade Simmons explains how everyone can bring creativity into the workplace.
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Using a Mobile Safety App to Enhance Emergency Response

A new app enables faculty and staff to call for help if they witness a crime or have an emergency.
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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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CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

The Hybrid Business Office Requires Candor and Care

Remote work isn’t in itself an obstacle to building trust among colleagues, but strong results require intentional bridge-building.
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After School  

  • Leadership

After School: Home Ties

Serving as treasurer for her university alumni association has strengthened this business officer’s connections to Thailand.
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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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  • Compliance
  • | Pandemic
  • | Regulatory Updates

NBOA Regulatory Roundup: Vaccines and Accommodations, ERC, International Travel and More This item is protected.

This fall is similar to the one before it only in that both are unlike any other schools have experienced in recent memory. As schools have worked to adapt their policies and procedures again to ensure the safety of thei
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Data Collection Made Easier

Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
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NBOA Leadership Academy Connects in Nashville

NBOA’s first in-person program since the 2020 NBOA Annual Meeting unfolded last week in Nashville, Tennessee. Nineteen participants in the second-ever cohort of the NBOA Leadership Academy met each other face to face, as
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  • Compliance
  • | Pandemic
  • | Regulatory Updates

OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard and Independent School Operations This item is protected.

Article by Amber Stockham, SPHR
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Legal
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Religious Rights and Personal Liberties in Independent Schools

Religious schools should consider how high courts have recently handled the “ministerial exception” when considering issues such as transgender rights and vaccine exemptions.
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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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  • Membership

Unsung Hero: David Wright, University School

Wright shifted University School’s health insurance to a self-insured captive program while consolidating other shared costs.
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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.
6 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Every Kind of Leader Has a (Correctable) Blind Spot

Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
4 min read

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

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