EDU Reporter is a specialized, role-based solution pack configuration overlaying the horizontal IOS+ Middleware Engine. Currently available as a data-layer reference implementation mapping CIP codes to NAICS via the Five-Layer Ontological Crosswalk, with full student/faculty role integration pilots launching in Q3 2026. Accreditation evidence for SACSCOC, AACSB, and ABET is generated by construction from horizontal ledger signatures.
Generic AI governance treats every user the same. EDU Reporter encodes the actual decision authority in a university — what a student can do with AI is different from what their instructor can do, which is different from what the department chair authorizes, which is different from what the dean approves, which is different from what the provost signs off on. The permissions match the governance.
AI use bounded by course-level permissions. Assignment-specific rules (e.g. "AI permitted for brainstorming, prohibited for final writing"). Submission produces a usage attestation aligned to course syllabus policy.
Curriculum-integrated permissions for course material development. Authorize AI use scope per assignment. Review student usage attestations. Generate course-level AI policy reports for accreditation evidence.
Department-wide AI policy authoring. Approval workflows for non-standard AI use. Department-level rollups of student and faculty AI activity. Direct input into program-level continuous improvement evidence.
School-level governance. Coordination across departments for accreditation cycles. Approval of school-wide AI policies. Dean-level accreditation evidence packages prepared automatically from substrate logs.
Institution-wide AI policy. Authority for accreditation submissions. Institutional rollups across all schools. Final signoff on the SACSCOC, AACSB, and ABET evidence packages generated by EDU Reporter.
Underneath the role hierarchy, EDU Reporter runs as a thin configuration overlay on the Horizontal IOS+ Middleware Engine. It leverages the Universal Decoding Matrix (UDM) and the deterministic YBR pipeline to enforce academic compliance standards.
Every action in EDU Reporter — every assignment graded with AI assistance, every course policy authored, every approval granted — feeds into accreditation evidence automatically. Re-accreditation cycles stop being archaeology projects.
14 sections, 45 standards covered. Standard 5 (Administration), Section 7 (Institutional Planning & Effectiveness), Section 8 (Student Achievement), Section 10 (Educational Policies) all addressed by EDU Reporter's evidence pipeline.
Business school accreditation. Continuous improvement evidence (Standard 2), curriculum management (Standard 4), assurance of learning (Standard 5), and faculty qualifications (Standard 3) are all populated from substrate logs.
Engineering and computing program accreditation. Student outcomes (Criterion 3), continuous improvement (Criterion 4), curriculum mapping (Criterion 5), and faculty qualifications (Criterion 6) covered.
User roles and educational taxonomy coordinates (CIP codes) are automatically mapped to NAICS classification profiles via the database's crosswalk table. This translates higher-ed specific standards into horizontal policy queries evaluated at Layer 5.
AI permissions are encoded at the syllabus level by faculty, approved by department chairs, and rolled up to the dean. These permissions act as dynamic filters over the horizontal IOS+ Middleware, ensuring compliant LLM usage per-session.
Each role tier accesses a specialized view of the horizontal audit ledger. Students see their usage attestations, while chairs, deans, and provosts monitor departmental and institutional rollups, all drawn from the same tamper-evident SQL database.
When accreditation reviews arrive, EDU Reporter packages the evidence packages automatically by querying the append-only ledger for all transactions signed under the crosswalked CIP/NAICS codes. The provost signs off; the substrate does the verification.
Public and private institutions whose SACSCOC, HLC, WSCUC, or other regional accreditation depends on demonstrating institutional effectiveness. EDU Reporter produces the substrate-grade evidence that makes the case.
Business schools navigating continuous improvement standards, AoL requirements, and curriculum review cycles. EDU Reporter's evidence pipeline addresses the entire AACSB framework.
Engineering colleges, CS departments, and tech programs where ABET re-accreditation requires demonstrable course-level learning outcomes mapping. EDU Reporter does the mapping in real time.