Tawnya Means

Biography

Tawnya Means, PhD, is co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of AdvancAI Higher Ed, founder & Principal at Inspire Higher Ed, and co-founder of AI Convergence — ventures collectively focused on helping higher education institutions lead AI transformation. She also serves as Strategic Innovation and AI Advisor at Bowling Green State University and Chief Learning Officer at AristAI. A long-standing AACSB seminar facilitator and published scholar, she holds a PhD in Information Science and Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri. With nearly two decades of experience across six continents, she is author of The Collaboration Chronicle: Human+AI in Education on Substack. Her work centers on evidence-based Human+AI partnerships that preserve what makes education irreplaceably human.

EDUCAUSE Publications

EDUCAUSE Presentations