Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal | http://dpj.pitt.edu DOI: 10.5195/dpj.2022.497 | Vol. 10 (2022) E1 The University of Students: A place for joint self-education Olga Shugurova University of Manitoba, CA Eugene Matusov University of Delaware, USA Ana Marjanovic-Shane Independent Scholar, USA Abstract In this article, we explain, explore, and problematize the formation, organization, leadership, and daily educational life of the first (to our knowledge) international democratic university of students (UniS) in the 21st century. UniS is run by the students, for the students, and with the students for their diverse purposes, desires, interests, and needs. A student is anyone who freely chooses to study something for whatever reason. Everyone can become a student at any time without any high school credits, fees, bureaucracy, tests, or any other form of human suffering. But what exactly is UniS? Why students? What if…? How can one visualize UniS, which is “so vague, so bizarre, so unnecessary to me!” What are its philosophical principles? Who are we? What does the University of Students look like? In the spirit of curiosity, wonder, leisure, fun, freedom, and love for learning, we invite the reader to attend and connect with two working edu-clubs of UniS: a movie club “Schooling Around the World and Time” and an “Educationalist Club.” In addition, we discuss some of the main issues, limitations, and challenges, including the civilization of the necessities, colonization of the human spirit by the economy, a lack of genuine leisure, and toxification of the human by foisted education. The open-ended, poetic conclusion lets the readers form their own interpretations, ideas, questions, and answers about UniS. What is the future of UniS? And only time will tell, 10, 100 years later or 100 light-years from now. Keywords: University of Students, international, democratic student-led university, democratic higher education, joint self-education, self-realization, freedom Acknowledgment: We are thankful to all members of the University of Students and especially its organizers: Artyom Fyodorov, Viktor Perminov, Tatyana Yastrebova, Abram De Bryun, and Alina Sharova. Thanks to Ann Qui, Tara Ratnam, Tina Kullenberg, and Bob Hampel for their feedback, editing, and comments on the early versions of the manuscript. Some of these comments are included in the manuscript on the margins. Olga Shugurova graduated with a Ph.D. from the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University in 2017. Her arts-based research focus was on a cultural and historical context of learning without schooling. Since 2015, Olga has been teaching as a sessional and distance course instructor in the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Manitoba. During this time, she has developed a keen interest in dialogic ISSN: 2325-3290 (online)