Georgia State University Library is accepting proposals for our free Open Education Week celebration, The Open for Student Success Symposium, to take place online on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 9:30am-4:30pm ET. The call for proposals is now open. Proposals are due November 1, 2025.
Our distinguished keynote speaker this year will be Josh Bolick, Head of the David Shulenburger Office Of Scholarly Communication & Copyright at the University of Kansas. With Maria Bonn and Will Cross, he co-edited Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) and co-founded the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN). In his keynote speech, "Open but Not Finished: What We've Won and the Work Ahead," Bolick will summarize the shift to open, examine emerging and lingering challenges, and consider how the Open Movement can continue progress toward more open research and teaching cultures.
The missions of the Open for Student Success Symposium are to:
The scope of the Open for Student Success Symposium's includes everything relating to:
Faculty and staff: We welcome proposals by faculty and staff practicing open and affordable education at any institution of higher education. Faculty and staff are encouraged to invite student collaborators as co-presenters.
Student spotlights: We welcome proposals by students who have completed research or class projects on the topic of open and affordable education. Other submissions will also be considered.
Recordings will be produced by Georgia State University Library as part of the Open for Student Success Symposium. Recordings, slides, and ancillaries will be uploaded to our YouTube channel and institutional repositories.
Presenters featured in each recording will retain creator ownership for the content of their work, which will be shared with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
This means others are free to share and adapt the work under the following terms:
Others must give appropriate credit to the presenter(s) and link to the original CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license terms.
Others must indicate whether changes were made.
Others may NOT use the material for commercial purposes.
If others remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must also distribute the new version of the work under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.
Contact Librarian Charlene at cmartoni@gsu.edu.
(in alphabetical order)
Brooke Fry
Christina Gangwisch
Denise George
Joel Glogowski
Charlene Martoni
Jason Puckett