It feels like all kinds of forces are working on our schools right now and not necessarily for the better. The credit crunch is affecting the financial markets; interest rates are down; birth rates are down; energy prices are up; the economy is sluggish at best; financial aid applications even from current families are going through the roof. Everyone at school is looking at you to solve the problem.
IAFM 2008 was devoted to just that. We brought together senior business officers from around the country to be the NBOA crew who will help guide this ship through the storm.
We spent two and half days together hammering out real solutions to these problems. Our work was shared with the rest of the membership ASAP. The meeting took place November 9-11 in Providence RI, a good seafaring town. This was right in the middle of budget prep time, so we had some real urgency to pull together our work and share it with others.