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Crisis Management
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Governance
Don’t let powerful board dissenters, loose-lipped gossips or simply poor preparation hijack your school’s principles or plans when so much is on the line.
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Extended Day
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Summer Camp
Evergreen School's auxiliary programs were strong, but the business processes were ad hoc. How careful teamwork grew a million dollar operation.
3 min read
Safety & Security
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Facilities
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Safety and Security
Consider everything from new construction to the fall return of faculty and students.
4 min read
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Craft a policy that can be explained alongside your mission, and you’ll find it easier to convey that it will strengthen your school’s core values.
3 min read
A multi-year financial model that Austin created helped the preschool plan for strategic initiatives that boosted revenue 15 percent growth.
2 min read
No distance long or short should divide you from finance and operations help when you need it.
3 min read
It doesn’t have to be an exercise in frustration. Tips from a 20-year audit veteran.
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The Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award is given to independent school business officers who have made an extraordinary contribution to their schools, as nominated by their colleagues. Congratulations to the 2018 recipient
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
Aggressive pay-equity laws are on the rise.
3 min read
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Human Resources
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Risk Management
States are enacting employee background check laws that apply as equally to independent schools as they do to public schools.
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Business officers have long undertaken myriad “other duties as assigned.” Campus communicator is one that could pay dividends this summer.
3 min read
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Human Resources
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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.
3 min read
5 Minutes with
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Accounting
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Risk Management
When it comes to weaknesses in schools’ internal controls, these CPAs have seen it all. Here’s how to protect your school’s finances, reputation and future.
10 min read
"I am able to speak to you because I avoided numbers in school... I am able to speak English because I was bad at math," said Yong Zhao, a world-renowned thought-leader on technology and globalization's impact on educati
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For independent schools at risk of an earthquake, the uncertainty is unsettling — and the risk potentially disastrous.
3 min read
CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Enrollment
If we continue to define personalized learning by student-to-teacher ratios or class size, we will erode independent schools' distinct value proposition.
3 min read
Projections
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Culture
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Safety and Security
Independent schools aren’t “soft targets” that need to be hardened. We are learning communities that need to be safe for our students.
3 min read
A lifelong love for soccer has strengthened this business officer’s connection to his independent school, first as a student-athlete and now as a staff member-coach.
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The 2018 recipient of the Ken White Distinguished Business Officer Award says a key to her success at independent schools has been her network of generous business officers. “The business office can be an island unto its
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Jeff Shields speaks with EMA's Peter Baron about business officers' opportunities to help shore up independent school enrollment.
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