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Putting Your Vision into Motion
Corey McIntyre, NAIS Chief Financial Officer
Afternoon Intention
 Recap
– Financial sustainability challenge
– Trends and forces
 School financial model
 Challenges and responses
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Independent School Challenge
Sustainable, Excellent, and Affordable?
 Tuitions out pacing inflation
 Parents demand highest quality
 Improve quality = add cost
 Higher cost > higher tuition > less accessibility
3
Financial Sustainability Forces
 Workers
– Flex time
– Transient
 Families
–
–
–
–
Telecommuting
Changing demands
Real estate prices
Disposal income
 Students
– Differentiated needs
– Changing brains
 Technology
– Exponential pace of
change
– Podcasts
– You Tube, Google
– Second Life
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Financial Sustainability Forces
 Workers
– Flex time
– Transient
 Families
–
–
–
–
Telecommuting
Changing demands
Real estate prices
Disposal income
 Students
– Differentiated needs
– Changing brains
 Technology
– Exponential pace of
change
– Podcasts
– You Tube, Google
– Second Life
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Changing Brains
 National Institutes of Mental Health Human Brain
Project – Neuroinfomatics
– Visual cortex 15% larger than 15 years ago
 3M research, 100 images viewed, recall rates:
 Kids 90%
 Parents 60%
 Grandparents 10%
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Financial Sustainability Forces
 Workers
– Flex time
– Transient
 Families
–
–
–
–
Telecommuting
Changing demands
Real estate prices
Disposal income
 Students
– Differentiated needs
– Changing brains
 Technology
– Exponential pace of
change
– Podcasts
– You Tube, Google
– Second Life
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Second Life?
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Linden Dollar L$
 $64 million GDP
 3,000 entrepreneurs
making $20,000
annually
 Anshe Chung, SL
real-estate mogul
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Gov. Mark Warner Interview
10
Virtual Relay for Life
 $40,000 raised
 1,000
participants
“walked”
through
Mexico, South
Africa, Skydiving from
Eiffel Tower
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“Second Life” Schools
 Harvard University
 University of Texas at Austin
 Francisco State University
 New York University
 Vassar College
 Trinity University
 University of Buffalo
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College Classes in Second Life
13
School Financial Model
 Why is this so hard?
– Baumol’s “Cost Disease”
– Inherent efficiency obstacles
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Cost Disease Model – W. Baumol1
Activity
Industries
Characteristics
1 1966 William
Dilemma
Productivity stagnant
Theater, Heath care,
Legal Services, Fine
Dining, Education
Labor intense
Hands-on commitment
Personal attention
Productivity enhancing
Manufacturing,
Technology, rest of
economy
Automated production
Economies of scale
Consistency
Baumol, William Bowen. Performing Arts: Economic
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Cost Disease Model
Activity
Industries
Annual productivity
improvement averages
Productivity stagnant
Theater, Heath care,
Legal Services, Fine
Dining, Education
Labor intense
Hands-on commitment
Personal attention
Independent schools:
0%
Productivity enhancing
Manufacturing,
Technology, rest of
economy
Automated production
Economies of scale
Consistency
US economy:
2%
General inflation
Market wage increases
3%
5%
3%
5%
Characteristics
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Cost Disease Model
Activity
Industries
Characteristics
Annual productivity
improvement averages
General inflation
Market wage increases
Less: productivity
improvement
Price increases required
Productivity stagnant
Theater, Heath care,
Legal Services, Fine
Dining, Education
Labor intense
Hands-on commitment
Personal attention
Independent schools:
0%
Productivity enhancing
Manufacturing,
Technology, rest of
economy
Automated production
Economies of scale
Consistency
US economy:
2%
3%
5%
0%
3%
5%
-2%
5%
3%
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Education Expenditure per Student
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Health Care vs. CPI
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Hypothetical Changes in Spending
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Inherent Efficiency Obstacles
 Howard Bowen1
– Excellent education replaces profit motive
– Only limit to spending on education is
amount of money available
– Schools will spend everything they get
11940’s
U.S. Department of Commerce, Chief economist for the U.S. House Ways
and Means and Senate Finance committees; 1964 named president University of
Iowa
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Expense per Student
(thousands)
Enrollment vs Total Expense:Student
$70
$60
$50
$40
$30
$20
$10
$-
500
1,000
Enrollment
1,500
2,000
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Financial Efficiency?
 Expensive policies and practices
– Need blind admissions; need-based
financial aid
– “Only industry where competition
increases price” Sidwell Friends Trustee
 Resistance to “business” concepts
– Expectation of language: Non-profit
– Creeping incrementalism
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How do you feel?
 Current financial model and
practices are:
–Financially sustainable
–Need to change
–Don’t know
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Your Challenges
What changes do you want to
make?
What are the barriers to
change?
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“It's easier to change the
course of history than a
history course.” Salza
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Your Responses
Student Teacher Ratios
 Impact of change
 SAIS Statistics
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Other Challenges
 Sacred cows
 Administrative efficiency
 Shrinking applicant pool
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Success Factors
 Desire
 Team skills
– Analytical
– Synthesis
– Creativity
– Objectivity
 Realistic time commitments
 Commitment to finding truth
 Radical acceptance
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Collective Efficacy
 Belief held by members of a group that they each
have the power through collective efforts to
achieve shared goals
– Success is expected
– Resilience is encouraged among and between
members
 Research has linked collective efficacy to student
achievement, crime reduction in neighborhoods,
etc. (Bandura 1993; Goodard, Hoy, & Wolfolk Hoy
2000)
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Closing Suggestion
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