People who have written ARC-PA reports, and people who have read them.
Edulytic is the software arm of Massey & Associates Consulting Solutions. The team that built it reviews every output.
From consulting work to a platform any program can use.
The platform started as work the MACS team was doing by hand for PA programs under real accreditation deadlines: pulling raw data, standardizing it, running the analysis, writing the narrative summaries that hold up under ARC-PA review. Dr. Scott Massey, PhD, founded Edulytic Solutions in 2025, after thirty years in PA accreditation and assessment.
The work was repeatable but not scalable. Every engagement ran the same steps by hand against the same eight ARC-PA reporting domains. Program directors kept asking a version of the same question: can any PA program get this kind of reporting support, or only the ones who can afford a consulting engagement? Edulytic makes that support available to any program. The analyst review layer keeps it defensible.
11 consultants. 250+ years inside PA programs.
Dr. Scott Massey, PhD, PA-C
Founder & Principal
30+ years in PA education
Medea Valdez, DHEd, MPAS, PA-C
Accreditation & program development
30+ years in PA education
Dr. Stephanie Bowlin, EdD, PA, DFAAPA
A Standards & institutional accreditation
35+ years in PA education
Dr. Vivian Moynihan, MD, MPH
Medical Director · B Standards
40+ years as MD
Cathy Ruff, MS, PA-C
Curriculum & competency-based assessment
30+ years in PA education
Dr. Tina Butler, DMSc, MPAS, PA-C
Data analysis & mock site visits
15+ years in PA education
Dr. Jennifer Eames, MPAS, DHSc, PA-C, DFAAPA
Accreditation strategy & policy
20+ years in PA education
Dr. Antoinette Polito, EdD, MHS, PA-C
Curriculum design & didactic year
15+ years in PA education
Dr. Jen Hixon, DHSc, PA-C
New program development & compliance
25+ years as Program Director
Dr. Johnna Yealy, PhD, PA-C
New program development & startup
20+ years in PA education
Dr. Virginia Snyder, PhD, PA-C
Self-study & program leadership
20+ years in PA education
The consultants behind Edulytic have spent their careers in PA education. Among them:
- Two former ARC-PA Commission Chairs, who have seen how the standards get interpreted from the inside.
- Founding Program Directors who have stood up new PA programs from scratch and led them to full accreditation.
- A twenty-year Dean of the College of Allied Health Professions at Western University of Health Sciences.
- A board-certified physician who chaired the ARC-PA Commission (2016-2018) and specializes in document and syllabi review under the B standards.
- A Master Faculty Award recipient (PAEA, 2023) who designed a complete competency-based PA curriculum from the ground up.
- Former ARC-PA site visitors, including one who has served on twenty-four visits and chaired thirteen.
The reporting logic, the predictive models and the data architecture came from people who have written ARC-PA reports and sat on the Commission that reads them.
Every output is reviewed before it reaches your program.
Analysts and statisticians review every output the platform produces. Incoming raw data is checked for completeness, formatting and anomalies. Outgoing reports are checked for accuracy and interpretation before they reach your program.
The review team comes from the MACS consulting team, people who have spent years inside PA programs doing this work. They know what an ARC-PA reviewer looks for, and they know the difference between a defensible number and a confident-sounding one.
Automation does the heavy lifting. People verify the output before it goes to a program facing review.
Three brands, one team, three ways to support PA education.
Edulytic Solutions is one of three brands in the Massey ecosystem. Each covers a different layer of PA program support, drawing on the same expertise.
Massey & Associates Consulting Solutions (MACS)
ARC-PA accreditation consulting across the full lifecycle: provisional through continuing, probation through new program development. The same team that stands behind the platform.
Edulytic Solutions
The software arm, for programs that need the analytical infrastructure but may not need a full consulting engagement.
Student Success Programs (SSP)
Cohort-licensed study skills curriculum for tuition-dependent institutions. The student-facing layer of the ecosystem.
A program working with one brand often works with another. They stay distinct because the buyer at each layer is distinct. The knowledge underneath is shared.
Your program’s data, handled the way an academic institution expects.
Edulytic is structured to support institution-directed data practices. You keep ownership and control. We process the data; you retain it.
FERPA-aligned handling
Structured to support FERPA alignment. Institutional policies, governance, and compliance responsibilities remain with the institution. PII is incorporated only when explicitly authorized.
Institution ownership of program data
All data entered remains the property of the institution. It is not disclosed to external parties except where explicitly exported or authorized.
Role-based access control
System access is governed through institution-defined, role-based permissions, with the capability to modify or revoke access as roles change.
SOC-2 in active progress
Active engagement with SOC-2 evaluation is underway. FERPA-aligned handling and institutional data ownership apply in the interim.
Talk to the team.
Thirty minutes. Someone who built the platform, or someone from the analyst review team, will be on the call.