Reality begins with a dream. A dream you dream alone can be fantasy; a dream we dream together can become a reality. Read more

Columbia University in New York City will host virtual graduation ceremonies segregated by race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status, in addition to its main commencement ceremonies for all students. Read more

Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ‘the most dangerous thing’ happening in modern-day Russia Read more

The publisher of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s forthcoming book rejected calls by some in the publishing industry and academia to cancel it. Read more

Nearly $2bn (£1.75bn) has been spent on virtual land in the past 12 months, as people and companies race to get a foothold in the metaverse, research shows. Read more

Academics who tweet are weighing the opportunity costs of leaving Twitter while looking into other social media platforms. But few are fleeing the digital gathering space in which they have invested so much—at least not yet. Read more

Oral arguments for STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. V. PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE began at 1 p.m. on Monday after the earlier affirmative action case against the University of North Carolina (UNC) ran long. Read more

A group of pupils in east London have seen off – temporarily at least – the workers who had come to dismantle their school street. Read more

Stanford University officials removed a man from the basement of a campus housing unit last week, the Los Angeles Times reported. William Curry, from Birmingham, Ala., had been living in Stanford dormitories for 10 months, despite not being a Stanford student. Read more

More than a month after the University of Virginia determined that vandalism at the Office of African-American Affairs was “unrelated to racial bias,” officials still will not provide further details on the suspect. Read more