Both popular and scholarly press has been confronting the changing role of higher education, from Frank Donoghue's Last Professor to Henry Giroux and Kostas Myrsiades's collection Beyond the Corporate University. Technology, economic shifts, and cultural-existential needs change roles for faculty, students, and administration. Many incoming scholars face a "brave new world" of increased adjunct positions, declining tenure, MOOCs, reduced pure research, and students who may not fit traditional models. Finding a new home in this shifting world may prove difficult or exciting, depending on the outlook.

St. Bonaventure University's English Department is hosting a two-day graduate conference April 9-11 centered on this topic, especially what it means to be a scholar, teacher, administrator, or student in this new education landscape. In the spirit of the conversation, we encourage a broad interpretation of this theme. Personal or creative accounts are welcome, alongside focused scholarly interests, like critical pedagogy, digital literacy, literature in the classroom, theories of education, cultural studies, aesthetics, etc. Papers on related concerns, such as the role of reading or the effects of media use, are also welcome. In a similar light, we welcome submissions from graduate students across academic disciplines, including the social and natural sciences. Each participant should prepare for an approximate length of 15 minutes.

Please submit a 200-300 word proposal and a 150 word biography to bonaconference@gmail.com by March 1 for review. If you have any questions or queries, including food or travel, you may ask the same e-mail with the subject line "Query." PDF and Word documents are heavily preferred—please, no .pages files. We shall get back to you by March 18. Good luck and we earnestly hope you reply!