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Budget
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
Business officers discuss priorities, decision-making processes, possible financial impacts for the current and future fiscal years, and more.
Risk & Compliance
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Admission
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Risk Management
Schools must be careful to collect neither too much nor too little information about students and families before they enroll.
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Crisis Management
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Human Resources
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Pandemic
On moving processes online, selecting software, setting expectations and creating equitable opportunities, and conveying community.
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
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Regulatory Updates
On communicating a campus closure, anticipating student and staff illness, telework and payroll expectations, and maintaining facilities operations.
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
We at NBOA can only imagine how difficult this time must be for our member schools and their communities. We update this resource page regularly with news items, guidance, community discussions and more to help inform in
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
On tracking community members’ travel, limiting campus visitors, planning large gatherings, adjusting trip waivers, addressing and preventing bullying and more.
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
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Regulatory Updates
Last week, the first U.S. schools closed in response to COVID-19 illnesses among the campus community or potential exposures. The students, families, faculty and staff impacted have returned from trips abroad or interact
Strategies
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Enrollment
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Policy
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Risk Management
How to phase out vaccine exemptions to protect community health, regardless of state law requirements.
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
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Technology
A Beijing independent school has grappled with centralizing communications, testing technological requirements and keeping up morale since moving learning online.
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Cybersecurity
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Risk Management
Strong digital use policies, trainings and behavioral standards can protect schools from these emerging technology related risks.
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Crisis Management
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Pandemic
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Trips
Schools are tackling health preparations, trip considerations and community communications among other measures.
CEO Notebook
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Crisis Management
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Risk Management
As recommendations quickly change, schools are seeking to mitigate risk while maintaining a steady course.
Risk & Compliance
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Misconduct
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Policy
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Risk Management
Strategies for preventing and addressing cyberbullying and other internet-based student misconduct.
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Environmental Sustainability
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Food Service
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Risk Management
New products that mimic ground beef are all the rage, but they may pose a problem for those with peanut allergies.
Safety & Security
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Crisis Management
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Culture
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Safety and Security
A behavioral threat assessment policy can help those in a close-knit independent school identify unusual behaviors and quickly intervene.
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Compliance
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Enrollment
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International
What new standards for international recruiters mean for independent schools — and the agencies they interact with.
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Crisis Management
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Culture
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Policy
The national admissions case highlights anxiety about getting into the right college — and the risk potential independent schools could be facing in the future.
Safety & Security
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Crisis Management
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Facilities
Addressing low-hanging fruit and implementing low-cost solutions could improve your school’s safety.
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Contract
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Risk Management
Federal court ruled recently that a school was not responsible for student’s claimed adverse effects from campus Wi-Fi. A strong enrollment contract helped the case.
External pressures have replaced operational pressures as top-of-mind risks among school leaders, while sexual misconduct issues continue to reverberate at a national level.
