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Financial Management

  • Strategies: Best Practices for Coordinating the Annual Audit

    Financial Management | It doesn’t have to be an exercise in frustration. Tips from a 20-year audit veteran. ...

  • No More Free Rides? Parking, Other Transportation Benefits Become Taxable

    Financial Management | NetAssets.org web exclusive Not all provisions in early versions of the Tax Cuts ...

  • Business Intelligence: Back in Black: In 2017, Endowments Made up for Lost Years

    Financial Management | Independent school endowment returns rose regardless of school size. Article by Mary ...

Risk Management

  • The More You Know: Pay Equity, Wage/Hour Complexities and Handbooks

    Independent school attorneys lay out the basics on a growing list of issues that could challenge every school—if they aren’t already. From the July/August 2018  Net Assets magazine The following is an excerpt ...

  • The More You Know: Reference and Criminal Background Checks

    Risk Management | Independent school attorneys lay out the basics on a growing list of issues that could challenge every school—if they aren’t already. From the July/August 2018 Net Assets magazine The ...

  • The More You Know: Vaping and Medical Marijuana

    Risk Management | Independent school attorneys lay out the basics on a growing list of issues that could challenge every school—if they aren’t already. From the July/August 2018  Net Assets magazine The ...

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Enrollment & Financial Aid

  • A Defining Moment or a Moment to Define?

    CEO Notebook | If we continue to define personalized learning by student-to-teacher ratios or class size, we will erode  independent schools'  distinct value proposition . Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE NBOA ...

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  • The Value + Affordability Experiment

    Enrollment & Financial Aid | Jeff Shields speaks with EMA's Peter Baron about business officers' opportunities to help shore up independent school enrollment . NetAssets.org web exclusive How are independent ...

  • Mission & Motivation: Know Your Niche, Find Your Tribe

    Enrollment & Financial Aid | By aligning around a compelling vision of its “mission-appropriate customer,” this small school clarified its message, focused its outreach and grew enrollment by 82 percent. ...

Facilities

  • 5 Steps to Building a Successful Auxiliary Program

    Facilities | NBOA 2018 Annual Meeting presentation materials available to  attendees now and to all ...

  • The Main Course

    Facilities | Schools uncover new strategies for making dining a winner — nutritionally, reputationally and financially. ...

  • Building Enrollment

    Facilities | Imaginative and strategic repurposing of underused spaces shows how modest budgets can strengthen ...

Leadership

  • Unsung Hero: Jan Austin

    Leadership | The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to business officers who have made extraordinary ...

  • Connecting through the Noise

    CEO Notebook | No distance long or short should divide you from finance and operations help when you need it.  ...

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  • Announcing the 2018 NBOA Will J. Hancock Unsung Heroes

    Leadership   | The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to independent school business officers who have ...

Human Resources

  • Department of Labor PAID Program: Amnesty Provision or Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

    Human Resources | A careful self-audit of your wage-and-hour program may be a better step than inviting the DOL ...

  • #NotUs

    Human Resources | Schools re-examine their practices for preventing sexual harassment in the era of #MeToo. “If ...

  • Preparing for Transgender Students and Faculty

    Human Resources | Transgender individuals make up just 0.6 percent of the population, but schools should prepare ...

Technology

  • Schools Scramble to Comply with EU Privacy Law

    Technology | Technical staff at many independent schools are working hard to meet the May 26 deadline for compliance ...

  • Strategies: Budgeting Ed Tech with Confidence

    Technology | Are teachers actually using the ed tech tools your school supports? Article by Jason Ramsden, ...

  • Mission & Motivation: A Place at the Leadership Table for School Technology Directors

    Technology | Technology has become too integral to school operations for it to be compartmentalized. Article ...

In the News

  • Calls for Increased Bus Driver Oversight

    (from K-12 Daily)  The National Transportation Safety Board’s awaited review of two high-profile school bus crashes in Maryland ...

  • College Pricing Model Favors Online Students

    (from Inside Higher Ed) Costing more than 60 percent less than its face-to-face alternative, the online degree program at ...

  • First State Data Privacy Act Passed

    (from The Verge)  The recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is set to dramatically change how businesses ...