academia

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

University & college education
academia
anti-university
beadle
business school
campus
grad
graduate
hall
hall of residence
Oxon
Panhellenic
pass degree
poly
polytechnic
the groves of academeidiom
university
unselective
vice chancellor
warden
wardenship

Examples from literature

My departure from Dublin ended these happy hours of companionship, and I exchanged that academe and my beloved Plato in petticoats for my play-house work at Liverpool. 
The beautiful elms that shaded great part of the way massed themselves in the "groves of academe" at the Square, and showed pleasant glimpses of "Old Harvard's scholar factories red," then far fewer than now. 

Examples of academe

academe
Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic.
Nevertheless, it is part of the currency of academe and continues to carry weight with those wishing to publish their work in a prestigious journal.
This article advocates a mutually beneficial rapprochement between the disciplines - both in academe and the workplace.
Neither is this just a textbook : it is a standard work of reference, which will be used by many inside and outside academe.
It would arguably have benefited the contributors, with career aspirations in academe, to submit their work to the scrutiny of journal publication.
Gender archaeologists have often interpreted the reluctance to deal with their challenge as the classical, conservative reaction of the largely androcentric academe.
Before 1954/5, some of them occupied positions outside academe.
We need to act as a 'dating agency' between practice and academe to catalyse teams to carry out the work.
I'd describe these as ' journalistic' if it wasn't for the fact this tends to be a pejorative term in academe.
It is well documented and readable and will be accessible to audiences outside academe.
The world of academe is unable to provide a lead.
This pattern is related, we would argue, to what can be called the world system of academe and the place of the social-scientific study of the military within it.
The island mentality represents an archaic aspect of academe which hopefully will evolve a little in the coming decades or be deconstructed by an ageing postmodernist.
These old ideas are gaining currency where one would least expect, not in academe but in corporate management, a source of stimulating models from which we have much to learn.
Interdisciplinarity simply cuts against the dominant grain of academe.
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