Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and peer-reviewed research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the Gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms acadème and académie.

An academic is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university or similar institution in post-secondary (or tertiary) education. He or she is nearly always an advanced degree holder who does peer-reviewed research. In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor. In the United Kingdom, various titles are used, typically fellow, lecturer, reader and professor (see also academic rank), though the loose term don is often popularly substituted. The term "scholar" is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of "academic" and describes in general those who attain mastery in research discipline. It has wider application in its being also used to describe those whose occupation was scientific or pseudo-scientific research prior to mass organised higher education.

Academic administrators are not typically included in this use of the term academic.

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In study week. My academic advisor just advised me to take Master. What subject should i take?
crujie (Cheng Rujie) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:48:48 -0000
In study week. My academic advisor just advised me to take Master. What subject should i take?
from my blog: I am a graduate: I am back and I am graduate! I debated my academic defence.. http://bit.ly/RKzWc ..spread
milk_tooth_rain (milk tooth's rain) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:46:49 -0000
from my blog: I am a graduate: I am back and I am graduate! I debated my academic defence.. http://bit.ly/RKzWc ..spread
Responded to more comments. http://bit.ly/2YUILb] Funny to have academics getting academic on TechCrunch.
vwadhwa (vivek wadhwa) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:46:02 -0000
Responded to more comments. http://bit.ly/2YUILb] Funny to have academics getting academic on TechCrunch.
UALR Gallery exhibit: “The Association or Creative Zoology” is a work of academic parody ... http://lnk.ms/2hqcL
LittleRockArts (Little Rock Arts) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:44:27 -0000
UALR Gallery exhibit: “The Association or Creative Zoology” is a work of academic parody ... http://lnk.ms/2hqcL
UALR Gallery exhibit: “The Association or Creative Zoology” is a work of academic parody
LittleRockArts (Little Rock Arts) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:44:18 -0000
UALR Gallery exhibit: “The Association or Creative Zoology” is a work of academic parody
@eatsleepcode yeah yeah, so far, you're a star wars, gamer coder who is on MSDN academic alliance.
janetalkstech (Jane Ullah) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:20:08 -0000
@eatsleepcode yeah yeah, so far, you're a star wars, gamer coder who is on MSDN academic alliance.

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