A challenging enrollment environment underscores the call for stepped-up market research and more rigorous collaboration between schools’ business and admissions functions.
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Facility Rental
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Summer Camp
Beyond summer camps and after-school programs, independent schools are taking second looks at auxiliary programs and their promise of net non-tuition revenue.
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It's widely accepted as best practice for independent schools to maintain three percent of the total cost of replacing the physical plant in a separate budget called PPRRSM (provision for plant replacement, renewal and s
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CEO Notebook
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Boards and Trustees
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Governance
One of the greatest challenges of any nonprofit board is to ensure that its conversations are both generative and strategic. Frustratingly, boards too often get mired in committee work. As a consequence, the full board s
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A former chief financial officer connected with the students at her school by chaperoning overnight trips.
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"The bean counters are taking over the world!" A school faculty member posted this on Twitter, the implication being that the "numbers people" were influencing too many decisions at his school. I don't know a single busi
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What’s in the FASB’s proposed changes to nonprofit financial statements? A look ahead.
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Boards and Trustees
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Compliance
It's often been said that the only constant is change. As we enter another school year, this cliché is spot-on.
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Risk Management
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Technology
From the archives: A sinister email, a twisted digital trail and an eye-opening journey into the realm of cybersecurity. One school's story.
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Communication
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Enrollment
"What keeps you up at night?" I get that question fairly often, including very recently from a head of school who I consider a thought leader within the profession. You might identify with my response of late. It covers
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The next time a prospective parent checks out your school, there's a good chance they'll do it from their phone or tablet computer. Whether they're waiting in line at the grocery store or sitting at a café, and wh
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As business officers know too well, there really is no such thing as downtime anymore in independent schools. The summer is busy with wrapping up the prior school year and preparing for the one ahead. NBOA is no differen
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Riding bicycles to raise money and save rides.
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Compliance
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Human Resources
Key questions that help you get the classification right.
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For U.S. independent day schools and boarding schools alike—and economically as well as culturally—there is much to like about the potential for an international student “homestay” program.
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CEO Notebook
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Boards and Trustees
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Governance
With the busiest part of the school year behind most of us, I invite you to consider your school's Board of Trustees in the context of the NBOA Board of Directors. Our Board is probably similar to yours in some ways, yet
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As your school year winds down, your professional association's planning for next year is already ramping up. Last week, members of the NBOA staff assembled in Washington, D.C., to identify and plan the vast array of NBO
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Why one business officer trained to be a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg.
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It's been a spring of heavy travel, and at each independent school I visit the topic of technology invariably arises. The questions go something like this: What role should technology play in our delivery of preK–1
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With students getting less unstructured playtime at home, independent schools are making high-tech and low-tech investments alike in exercise facilities, equipment and philosophies.
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