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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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RT @mediawatchdoggy: @jason_a_w An academic and an ABC journalist - throw in a lawyer and you could title it "what's wrong with Australia"
jason_a_w (Jason Wilson) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:42:07 -0000
RT @mediawatchdoggy: @jason_a_w An academic and an ABC journalist - throw in a lawyer and you could title it "what's wrong with Australia"
@jason_a_w An academic and an ABC journalist - throw in a lawyer and you could title it "what's wrong with Australia"
mediawatchdoggy (Fake Nancy) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:41:16 -0000
@jason_a_w An academic and an ABC journalist - throw in a lawyer and you could title it "what's wrong with Australia"
Renewable Music: Prosaic is more than Academic: Indeed, the compositions/piece/exercises in Maue's book Wat.. http://bit.ly/1Usi9J
dletraining (dletraining) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:39:33 -0000
Renewable Music: Prosaic is more than Academic: Indeed, the compositions/piece/exercises in Maue's book Wat.. http://bit.ly/1Usi9J
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: No H1N1 Vaccine For Us Say Students - http://tinyurl.com/yb5cqr2
2009h1n1flu (2009h1n1flu) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:39:03 -0000
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: No H1N1 Vaccine For Us Say Students - http://tinyurl.com/yb5cqr2
@eastmanwolf The discipline was pretty sharp, I've got to admit, though the academic discipline was what was actually valuable.
sparrowmorgan (Sparrow Morgan) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:37:22 -0000
@eastmanwolf The discipline was pretty sharp, I've got to admit, though the academic discipline was what was actually valuable.
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