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Financial Management

  • Growing a School’s Endowment: Don’t Let It Be an Afterthought

    Financial Management | Article by Robert Riggar, SunTrust Bank The focus on endowment often takes a back ...

  • Business Intelligence: First Forays into the Composite Financial Index

    Financial Management | Once the province of colleges and universities, the CFI has helped early adopters in independent ...

  • 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. ...

Risk Management

  • Big Game. Big Challenges.

    Risk Management | How much time, energy and focus do independent schools place on the titanic risks that accompany athletic events?  Article by Steve Mandell, Big Back Pack In the South, football season ...

  • The More You Know: Employee and Student/Family Handbooks

    Risk Management | Employees and families increasingly use school handbook language to pursue legal claims against schools. From the July/August 2018  Net Assets magazine The following is an excerpt of the ...

  • The More You Know: Wage/Hour Misclassification

    Risk Management | Wage-and-hour claims are booming. From the July/August 2018  Net Assets magazine The following is an excerpt of the article "The More You Know," which covers nine additional topics (see ...

Enrollment & Financial Aid

  • NBOA Partners with EMA toward Financial Aid’s Future

    CEO Notebook | Two national associations embark on a year-long effort to help schools maintain and grow enrollment of mission-aligned students and thrive in perpetuity. Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE NBOA President ...

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  • 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 ...

Facilities

  • Creating a Healthy Environment to Reduce the Risk of Eating Disorders

    Facilities | Students at private schools are particularly high-risk for these serious but treatable illnesses. ...

  • Safety & Security: Summer Safety Checklist

    Risk Management | Consider everything from new construction to the fall return of faculty and students. Article ...

  • 5 Steps to Building a Successful Auxiliary Program

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

Leadership

  • Unsung Hero: Mike Goto, Island School

    Leadership | A master manager and strategic thinker, Goto also makes time to mentor his colleagues and other business ...

  • Unsung Hero: Sean Furlong, Gilman School

    Leadership | Furlong's negotiating skills have helped Gilman remain affordable for local families. The Will ...

  • Mission-Centered Leadership

    CEO Notebook | A leading entrepreneur values his company’s mission over growth and revenue generation. Are independent ...

Human Resources

  • Risk & Compliance: Responsible Student Data Collection

    Human Resources | A privacy policy can help ensure students’ data is safe with your school — and build trust with ...

  • Messy Separations and the Role of Performance Management in Avoiding Them

    Human Resources | Excerpted and adapted from NBOA’s new book, Culture Meets Compliance: the NBOA Guide to Assessing ...

  • Will This Be the Year for Internal Investigations?

    Human Resources | Growing numbers of independent schools are finding themselves conducting or considering internal ...

Technology

  • Strategies: Time for an IT Revamp?

    Technology | A management framework can help schools prioritize which parts of your technology program need a ...

  • Ed Tech’s Classroom Payoff

    Technology | How can your school encourage even reluctant teachers to engage in classroom technologies? Tech directors ...

  • The General and the Diplomat: Cybersecurity at Independent Schools

    Enrollment & Financial Aid | Data stored at independent schools is at greater risk than ever, but rigorous ...

In the News

  • Responding to Extreme Weather

    (from CUPA-HR) In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey last year, Houston Community College took a number of steps to ease ...

  • Charitable Giving Down in 2018

    (from the NonProfit Times)  The overall number of donors giving in 2018 compared to 2017 was  down 6.3 percent in the first ...

  • Cloud Computing Top Business Risk

    (from Gartner) Cloud-managed service providers are predicted to triple by 2020, as they become increasingly integral to ...