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Expanding the Enrollment Funnel
In the 2018 Independent School Executive Forum’s Executive Roundtable series, Building and Sustaining a Competitive Advantage, researchers shared best practice strategies in the area of enrollment management and faculty professional development. This resource center is designed to take the insights and best practices from our research on enrollment management, Expanding the Enrollment Funnel, and translate…
Ensuring Independent School Financial Sustainability
With growing concerns about economic and demographic changes, price of tuition, and questions of the value of independent school education, financial sustainability is an issue for independent schools. This brief highlights major factors that impact financial sustainability and lays out six levers you can use to inflect it: advancement, cost cutting, alternative revenues, enrollment management,…
Student Mental Health Toolkit
Between rigorous course loads and numerous extra-curricular activities, students today are busy building impressive resumes to distinguish themselves in an increasingly competitive college admissions process. Factor in parental pressure, a 24/7 digital life, and the growing pains of adolescence, and you’ll find students are stressed out, sleep-deprived, and often ill-prepared for new and less-familiar settings.…
Tackling the Student Stress Dilemma
K-12 school leaders are increasingly confronted with unprecedented levels of student stress on campus. In addition to the steady rise in the number of students struggling with clinical mental health issues, this stress manifests in maladaptive behaviors, academic misconduct, substance abuse, and poor physical health. This is a growing challenge for public schools—and an opportunity…
Word of Mouth Toolkit
Use this toolkit to guide admissions, marketing, and communications teams in taking advantage of the full potential of word-of-mouth for recruitment purposes. Traditionally, mission-aligned families have been familiar with the value of an independent school education and have actively pursued it for their children. Recently, increased competition and the rising cost of tuition have resulted…
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MoreMaking the Most of Your Independent School Executive Forum Membership
About the Webconference In this program overview and orientation session, we will provide an introduction to EAB and the Independent School Executive Forum. We will discuss our most recent research and related tools on the topics of institutional risk management and faculty recruitment and hiring. We will also review our research library, discuss our current…
2020 Independent School Executive Forum National Meeting Series
Join us at a National Meeting The Independent School Executive Forum is excited to host our annual national meeting series, bringing together heads of school from around the country. Across the two-day meeting, we will share our latest research, provide time for discussion, and preview forthcoming implementation support services.