Risk & Compliance
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Risk Management
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Technology
One of the best times to address cybersecurity risks is before building or remodeling. Do not rely solely on your IT team.
3 min read
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Facilities
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Human Resources
Proactive succession planning helps schools staff increasingly complex facilities leadership positions.
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CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Culture
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Facilities
There's lots to like in shared classrooms and faculty co-working spaces.
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Don't be caught off-guard when it comes to your campus's valuable fixed assets, whatever their condition and stage of life.
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Schools that blur the line between food service operations and student learning bring campus communities closer — and hone their value proposition.
12 min read
The business officer and facilities director must work as a team in tackling challenges and envisioning possibilities.
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Critical decisions about technology interfaces, not gears and machines, drive successful modernization projects. "Whatever big system we're integrating these days involves our IT department."
12 min read
A flexible approach to school space enables students to grow within and outside the classroom.
3 min read
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Facilities
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Human Resources
From the archives: Trade shortages and cost concerns prompt more schools to evaluate pros and cons of outsourcing facilities and operations maintenance.
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Tech to get organized and fit in the business office.
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Facilities
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Human Resources
When key financial officers and facilities personnel retire at the same time, how do you prepare the school for the transition?
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Our schools’ physical plants must support our value propositions in demonstrable ways that align with the investments we ask families to make.
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A construction-management app captures key details.
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Too many emails. Too much time checking them. One school's app-based method for stemming the tide.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Facilities
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Policy
Independent schools have always had students and staff whose gender identities do not correspond to their genders at birth, but only recently — spurred partly by national debates over “bathroom bills” defining access to
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Going where few independent schools have gone (so far), Milton Academy brings on a full-time data analyst to ensure the consistent application of data — trends, assumptions, outcomes — in financial decision-making.
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Risk & Compliance
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
They're a part of every school's culture and legacy. They're also fraught with risk.
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Endowment
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Enrollment
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Facilities
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Financial Aid
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Leadership
More than 1,300 attendees made the Washington gathering the biggest-ever of independent school financial and operational leaders. A recap in tweets.
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Human Resources
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Key Technology
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Technology
From the archives: Education technology is on a fast-moving trajectory. Here’s how schools’ technology department staffing structures can keep pace.
11 min read
From the archives: Economic recovery drives "a perfect storm" of financing for major construction at independent schools. But there’s a new sense of caution this time.
10 min read
