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Facilities
| Pandemic

Managing Your Empty Campus

A well-managed long-term unoccupancy can save schools significant resources.

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Culture
| Pandemic

Wellness Reimagined: Two Schools’ Approach During COVID-19

Independent schools are moving wellness initiatives online and finding new ways to support their community.

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Cash Management
| Employment

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In the age of e-commerce, does it still make sense to have a bricks-and-mortar school store?

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Strategies

Contract
| Employment
| Facilities

Strategies: Approaching the Outsourcing Decision

Cost alone should not drive decisions to keep services in-house or not — consider a more complete value proposition.

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Culture
| Environmental Sustainability
| Facilities

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Independent schools have moved wellness out of the gym and into spaces where everyone can benefit.

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CEO Notebook

Leadership
| Pandemic
| Professional Development

New Challenges, New Learning

While school budgets are likely to face intense scrutiny this year, professional development opportunities may help our schools differentiate and even grow in a challenging environment. 

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Facilities
| Pandemic
| Planning

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School leaders will need to rethink everything from physical space to agreements to funding sources.

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Employee Benefits
| Labor Law
| Pandemic

CARES ACT and Retirement Plans: What Independent Schools Need to Know

Should schools modify their retirement plans to include CARES provisions? And if the school wants to lower contributions, do those changes need to be made concurrently?

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Facilities
| Leadership
| Technology

Down to the Wire: Tech and Capital Projects

Involving tech leaders early in capital construction projects could save schools 10% on lost costs.

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Business Intelligence

Cash Management
| Research
| Tuition

Business Intelligence: Annual Giving, Endowment Returns Held Steady in Fiscal 2019

While annual giving did not dip precipitously, most schools shouldn’t count on it to fill the gap between net tuition and expenditures.

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Risk & Compliance

Compliance
| Employee Benefits
| Employee Leave

Risk & Compliance: Mandatory Paid Leave Is Coming

New leave laws are likely to arrive in your state or city if they haven't already. The time to prepare is now.

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CEO Notebook

Culture
| Leadership
| Pandemic

Finding Strength in Rituals, New and Old

Reinventing routines and rituals can boost wellness not only for students but all of us working under new circumstances.

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Projections

Crisis Management
| Leadership
| Pandemic

Projections: Community Beyond Campus

What can we learn from the rapid changes to our school routines and processes?

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Communication
| Leadership
| Pandemic

Digitally Communicating Your School’s Value

With campuses closed at the height of admissions and advancement season, independent schools need to communicate more clearly than ever via digital channels.

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