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Labor Law
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Policy
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Risk Management
Are your policies and procedures keeping up with new risks and laws?
5 min read
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Compliance
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Employee Benefits
Confusion persists over changes to the FLSA overtime exemption charges. Teachers are exempt, but schools could see their employment costs grow for many other staff.
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Human Resources
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Safety and Security
Growing numbers of schools consider adding a dedicated risk manager. “It’s not that the CFO is doing less. It’s just that there is so much to keep up with and do that no one person can do it all.”
10 min read
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Employee Benefits
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Facilities
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Tax
Tax-free or subsidized on- or off-campus housing is among independent schools’ most generous fringe benefits for select staff, as well as among the most misunderstood in terms of potential tax liability.
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Last month, more than 20 of your peers and colleagues spent 90 minutes asking one question after another of Grace Lee, NBOA Vice President Legal Affairs. The following week, some 360 schools participated in an NBOA webin
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At-will employment or not at-will? That is just one issue that should be clearly and consistently defined.
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Tips for ensuring the fringe benefits that help make your school such a nice place to work are also compliant with the law.
10 min read
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Compliance
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Employee Benefits
From coaching staff, to long-term subs, answers to business officers’ most vexing questions about the Affordable Care Act.
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Risk Management
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Termination
Whether voluntary or not, faculty and staff departures are both inevitable and potentially fraught. Here’s how to get them right.
12 min read
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Admission
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Human Resources
Ian Symmonds wants independent schools to showcase their contributions to the world.
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Compliance
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Human Resources
Key questions that help you get the classification right.
4 min read
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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CEO Notebook
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Culture
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Human Resources
For more than 15 years I've been thinking about the role of the CFO, especially as it relates to educational institutions, vis-à-vis my professional positions at NBOA and NACUBO. Is it just me or is the CFO gettin
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Communication
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Human Resources
Independent schools grapple with defining and enforcing social media boundaries—and not only those involving students. “It’s a teaching moment.”
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CEO Notebook
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Human Resources
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Planning
Last week, more than 30 business officers from across the country gathered to discuss the issues of greatest importance among their peers at NBOA's Conference on the Business Office (COBO). "This event symbolizes the nat
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CEO Notebook
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Human Resources
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Membership
As summer ends, I find myself thinking about the school year ahead and, by association, the NBOA year ahead. More than the programs, webinars and new initiatives NBOA will undertake, I'm struck by a significant detail of
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CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Employee Benefits
As summer approaches, many of you will see the energy and excitement of students replaced with the very different energy and excitement of campers. Your calendar for the coming months is filled with year-end closings, fa
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CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Culture
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Professional Development
Between sessions at the 2014 NBOA Annual Meeting two weeks ago, I was stopped time and time again by attendees who thought Amanda Ripley’s Monday Opening Keynote was outstanding. Punctuating these hallway conversations w
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