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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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New blog post: French team moots academic exchange http://bit.ly/4BBSa1
zeolshah (Zeol Shah) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:31:04 -0000
New blog post: French team moots academic exchange http://bit.ly/4BBSa1
In Academic Decathlon reading about French Art in the 18th Century. How thrilling.
iAmdaviddd (David Amaya) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:18:52 -0000
In Academic Decathlon reading about French Art in the 18th Century. How thrilling.
@nhacizade the nyt is usually bad with french academic obits. what they ran when derrida passed was despicable.
caughtintheweb (Sam Han) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:09:51 -0000
@nhacizade the nyt is usually bad with french academic obits. what they ran when derrida passed was despicable.
@gpilliard no. This is a French academic
spilliard (Sarah Pilliard) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:17:29 -0000
@gpilliard no. This is a French academic
The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age of "100". He was one of those thinkers who influenced our academic thinking
williamsharif (William Al-Sharif) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:07:41 -0000
The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age of "100". He was one of those thinkers who influenced our academic thinking
One of my academic idols, French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, dies today at the age of 100. http://tinyurl.com/yj6hk6f
technogenii (Kristina Schneider) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:18:07 -0000
One of my academic idols, French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, dies today at the age of 100. http://tinyurl.com/yj6hk6f
The Academic Tradition (Rehs Galleries, Inc.) - Online exhibition of French Academic paintings by Bouguereau, Guillou, Munier, Perrault and others.
Meta Description: [ Exhibition of important 19th century French Academic works of art including Bouguereau, Knight, Dupre, Guillou, Perrault, Munier, Toudouze and de Schryver. ]
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The Salon Tradition - While the artists outside the established institutions were revolutionizing art, the Academy continued to function as a bastion of traditional standards and values.
Meta Description: [ Humanities Research Network: a project of the Stanford Humanities Center ]
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