Our Mission
ACCORD provides critical methodologies that integrate academic and managerial perspectives in higher education, creating new models of academic and costing data that cannot be found in any other approach. The complex world of higher education is made more so by calls for transparency and the challenge of funding. Institutions across the country are responding to trustees, parents, and students about the costs of their individual academic programs. As Congress and accrediting agencies move to demand both accountability and transparency, higher education institutions need more information for decision making and strategic planning in accommodating these demands. While there is no shortage of ...
Our Method
We generate answers to your questions about the costs, revenues, enrollment, and staffing of your institution using your own institutional data, providing you with customized decision modeling tools to strategically assess enrollment, tuition, and financial scenarios for your institution. This service allows you to project how various changes in enrollment patterns will impact future costs and revenues of the institution. This process financially empowers institutions to strategically navigate changing economic demands and fulfill their mission for many years into the future. Every institution houses immense amounts of data about enrollment, student schedules, costs, revenues, programs, departments, staffing, etc. However, in most ...
Our Team
Roger C. Fiedler, Ph.D., President: As the developer of the ACCORD System, Roger has over 20 years of experience in academic administration and institutional research. As a nationally prominent statistician, higher education executive, and master teacher, he has authored research in educational and medical fields in both the private sector and colleges and universities. Roger is noted for his extraordinary skills in the management and analysis of financial data and the development of sophisticated financial and strategic planning models. Existing or prospective clients with specific questions about their institution’s reports ...
Our Services
Academic Portfolio Modeling You will receive a customized data report describing the exact costs and revenues of each department and each program (or major) at your institution. Easy to interpret yield ratios and graphs will assist you in quickly determining the financial impact of each program and department on your campus. To complete the costing of programs your institution will be asked to provide datafiles in standard database formats (e.g., Excel, Dbase, etc.). You will also receive a customized decision modeling spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel that will allow you to model various enrollment and tuition scenarios. This strategic planning tool is invaluable for ...
ACCORD Announces New “Dashboard” Service
Our Portfolio Modeling Dashboard allows you to project changes in revenues and expenses instantly based upon potential enrollment patterns using your institution’s actual revenue and expense data. The projections are customized to your institution and are therefore much more accurate than those based upon averages or other institutions’ data. For example, you could answer the following... Read More →
APM Renamed ACCORD: Integrated Academic & Financial Information
Amherst, NY — Academic Portfolio Modeling Services, a Division of RMJFF Leadership Solutions, LLC is proud to announce a name change. Our new name is Accord: Integrated Academic and Financial Information. Our new web address is: www.accordata.org. Accord provides analysis services to higher education institutions by combining enrollment and financial data to provide information on costs and... Read More →
Fox Garrity Appointed Director of Operations
Amherst, NY — Bonnie Fox Garrity, Ed.D, joined Academic Portfolio Modeling Services (APM Services), a Division of RMJFF Leadership Solutions, LLC. Fox Garrity’s background includes 10 years of experience as a business professor. Fox Garrity recently received a doctorate in Educational Leadership, and her research and publishing focus on higher education finance. Fox Garrity joins APM as... Read More →
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