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Comprehensive Dues Structure
The 2024–2025 dues for TABS membership are based on the number of boarding students enrolled in your school on opening day of the 2023–2024 school year.
The fee is $47.99 per boarding student with the minimum dues amount at $4,307 and the maximum at $12,828.
Dues for schools located outside the United States are paid in US dollars.
Our Direction
Let’s face it. We’ve all needed one another these past couple years. Boarding school staff, faculty, and leaders have shared their fears, challenges, and small victories; offered generous advice to one another; and created spaces for important, pressing, sometimes difficult, but always fruitful exchanges. We’re grateful to have been your partners on the journey. Like so many of your schools, TABS has emerged a different organization. We’ve paired the lessons of the pandemic with those we gleaned from extensive member research to shape a new vision for serving schools. Please peruse some of the key themes guiding our priorities—and let us know if you have suggestions or idea.
TABS is one community. The Association is returning to a unified membership with one set of benefits and one dues structure.
TABS must have an expansive view but a clear purpose. We are creating exceptional value for boarding schools and their leaders through best-in-class Professional Learning, Enrollment & Recruitment Assistance, and actionable Research & Insights.
TABS programs must deliver unambiguous value to the Association’s core audiences, with rich offerings for Heads and Assistant Heads of School, Residential & Student Life Leaders and Practitioners, and Admission and Marketing Professionals. Audiences for TABS next chapter include DEI Directors, Advancement Professionals, Institutional Researchers, and Trustees.
Speed matters. When the issues are urgent, TABS must be nimble in our response. We’ll sustain a robust schedule of timely and topical virtual learning, and conduct relevant flash surveys to collect and disseminate key information rapidly.
The Association finds its roots in shared principles. TABS should reflect and demonstrate support for Justice, Inclusivity, and Belonging. TABS will be initiating an audit of our organization and our strategic initiatives to embed these principles more deeply throughout our work.
Throughout the past year, boarding schools cooperated with unprecedented openness. TABS is continuing to expand the opportunities for members to connect with and learn from one another, standing up online community spaces and regular discussion forums. We’ll also continue to convene the membership, in-person and virtually, around key educational and strategic questions, sourcing subject matter experts when it’s beneficial.
There is an ongoing need for schools to define and promote the advantages of an immersive, residential education, one that prepares young people exceptionally well for life. TABS will help its members make the case for boarding school. We’ve moved to a worldwide student recruitment approach, with programming, platforms, tools, guidance, and data-driven insights to support schools’ recruitment and enrollment work, at home and abroad.
The residential and student life functions in schools should be elevated. TABS will be at the center of that effort. The Association plans to introduce a new learning credential for professionals in the space.
GET IN TOUCH WITH TABS
- TABS@TABS.org
- 828.258.5354
- One North Pack Square, Suite 301, Asheville NC 28801, USA
