AI consulting for higher education, from task force to roadmap
Your campus needs one coordinated AI plan that faculty trust and leadership can act on. Tim Mousel chairs the Lone Star College System-Wide AI Task Force and serves as an AI educational consultant for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. He helps your institution stand up its own task force, draft policy, and move from discussion to implementation.
- Chair, Lone Star College System-Wide AI Task Force
- AI educational consultant, THECB
- Invited participant, White House Task Force on AI Education (September 2025)
- 50+ institutions served
For leaders who own the campus AI decision
Who it is for
- Presidents, provosts, and chief academic officers setting institutional AI direction
- AI task forces and committees that need structure, momentum, and a charter
- Deans and faculty senate leaders shaping academic policy on AI use
- Teaching and learning, IT, and online learning leaders coordinating tools and training
- Multi-campus systems aligning several colleges around one approach
The problem it solves
On many campuses, AI decisions happen in pockets. One department writes a syllabus statement, IT approves a tool, a committee meets without a mandate, and faculty hear different messages from each.
This program gives your institution a single structure: clear roles and decision rights, first pilots that build momentum, policy and communication language ready for review, and a roadmap with owners and dates.
What participants leave with
Your leadership team and task force members leave each working session with decisions made and documents drafted.
- Task force roles, councils, and decision rights that faculty trust
- An honest picture of where your campus stands on AI policy, tools, training, and adoption
- First pilots and early wins chosen to build momentum
- Draft policy and communication steps for your first semester
- A faculty and staff development plan tied to your goals
- An implementation roadmap with owners, milestones, and checkpoints
What is included
Core deliverables
- Readiness reviewA structured look at your current policies, approved tools, training, and adoption
- Stakeholder sessionsFacilitated listening sessions with faculty, staff, and leadership
- Task force charter and rolesMembership, councils, decision rights, and a meeting rhythm
- Policy and communication draftsDraft AI policy language, syllabus guidance, and campus messages for your governance review
- Faculty development planTraining sequenced to the roadmap, with options from the Faculty AI Workshop
- Implementation roadmapPilots, owners, milestones, and the measures your task force will report on
Optional custom tools
When the roadmap calls for it, we build tools for your campus: custom chatbots for courses and services, PocketAI, and a curated AI Repository of tools and resources for your faculty.
At a glance
- Format
- Phased advisory engagement with facilitated working sessions
- Length
- Scoped to your academic calendar. Most engagements open with a leadership working session of up to a half day.
- Group size
- Your leadership team or task force, with stakeholder sessions sized to each group
- Delivery
- In person, virtual, or a mix of both
- Customization
- Built around your governance structure, policies, approved tools, and calendar
- Follow-up
- Scheduled check-ins as the roadmap rolls out, set in your plan
- Pricing
- A fixed quote based on length, group size, customization, and travel. We send it after the consultation call.
A half-day leadership working session
Sample agenda for illustration, based on the "Building an Institutional AI Task Force" session. We set the final agenda with you after the consultation call.
- 0:00 to 0:15Goals and ground rules. What leadership needs from this session and what decisions are on the table.
- 0:15 to 0:50Readiness snapshot. Where your campus stands on policy, approved tools, training, and adoption.
- 0:50 to 1:30Lessons from a system-wide task force. What Tim has learned chairing the Lone Star College System-Wide AI Task Force, and what transfers to your campus.
- 1:30 to 1:45Break
- 1:45 to 2:30Roles, councils, and decision rights. Draft the task force structure and who decides what.
- 2:30 to 3:15First pilots and early wins. Choose the projects that will build momentum and trust.
- 3:15 to 3:45Policy and communication steps. Outline the messages and policy work for your first semester.
- 3:45 to 4:00Commitments. Owners, dates, and the next working session.
What campus leaders and teams say
Quoted word for word from attendee takeaways. Tim has collected 183 of them across 27 sessions.
I loved the way in which you approached your implementation plan at your institution. I wish this could be replicated everywhere!
I enjoyed learning about how to create an agent, that will be really helpful for my job. I created 4 different agents this morning.
Tim does a great job of explaining things and very engaging.
Recent strategy and leadership engagements
- May 2026"Building an Institutional AI Task Force: A Scalable Blueprint for Large-Scale Innovation and Adoption"48th Annual NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence
- March 2026"Building a System-Wide AI Task Force"TxDLA 2026
- March 2026"AI is Here, Now What?"AI in Teaching and Learning Symposium, Texas State University
- March 2026"Agentic AI in Education: Understanding, Confronting, and Adapting to AI Agents"Keynote, AACU AI Institute Presentation, Montgomery County College
- February 2026"AI 101 & Advanced AI"Two-day workshop and consulting, community college client
- February 2025"AI in Action: Empowering Educators and Engaging Students"Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Digital Learning Summit
- February 2025"From Concept to Chatbot"UPCEA webinar with Purdue University
- November 2024"Creating and Maximizing Customized AI Chatbots"OLC Accelerate 2024
From first call to follow-up in four steps
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Consultation call
A free conversation about your goals, your governance structure, and where AI work already lives on campus. We reply to every request within one business day.
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Tailored plan
You receive a proposed scope, the deliverables in sequence, a calendar, and a fixed quote.
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Delivery
Readiness review, stakeholder sessions, and working sessions that produce your charter, policy drafts, and roadmap.
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Follow-up
Check-ins as your task force carries out the roadmap, plus faculty training where the plan calls for it.
Higher education AI consulting FAQ
How is a consulting engagement priced?
Each engagement gets a fixed quote based on its length, the number of groups involved, the amount of customization, and travel for on-site sessions. We send the quote after the consultation call, once we understand your scope.
We already have an AI committee. Can you still help?
Yes. We start from the work your committee has already done, then add the charter, decision rights, and roadmap that turn a discussion group into a task force with a mandate.
Will you write our AI policy?
We draft policy language, syllabus guidance, and campus communications for your review. Your governance bodies revise and approve the final versions, which keeps ownership with your institution.
Which AI tools do you recommend, and how do you handle data privacy?
We build the plan around tools your campus has approved or is evaluating, such as Microsoft Copilot. Privacy and data protection are part of the readiness review and the policy drafts, and any custom tool we build is designed with your data rules in mind.
Can the work happen virtually?
Yes. Readiness reviews and many working sessions run well online. Leadership retreats and stakeholder sessions often benefit from an on-site visit, and we can mix both formats in one engagement.
How do procurement and grant funding work?
We provide a written quote and an invoice and work within your institution's purchasing process. If a grant is paying for the work, share its requirements and we will align the scope and documentation with them. Funding decisions rest with your institution and the grantor.
More ways to work with us
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Applied AI training for workforce programs, CTE, and Texas employers.
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