Academia
World of scholars
Academia is the world of colleges, universities, and scholarly research—the institutions, people, and culture devoted to higher education and intellectual inquiry.
The term often carries connotations of ivory-tower detachment: He left academia for the private sector.
Someone in academia pursues knowledge professionally, typically through teaching, publishing, or both.
She's been in academia her whole career.
Higher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
- facultyInherent power or ability
- tenureProtected employment status
- departmentDistinct unit within organization
dean · provost · campus · professorship · lecturer · adjunct · sabbatical · endowment
Educational funding or erudition
- publicationIssued written material
- journalRecord of daily events
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
methodology · citation · hypothesis · bibliography · footnotes · abstract · findings · data
Formal communication on subjects
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- inquiryRequest for information
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
pedagogy · paradigm · canon · dialectic · hermeneutics · praxis · semiotics · ontology
Sheltered intellectual enclave
- collegialCharacterized by peer cooperation
- elitismPreference for privileged rule
- credentialProof of qualification
- prestigeReputation commanding admiration
peer · mentor · protege · cohort · networking · politics · hierarchy · gatekeeping
university
Higher education institution
- collegeHigher education institution
- facultyInherent power or ability
- tenureProtected employment status
department · dean · provost · campus · professorship · lecturer · adjunct · sabbatical · endowment · chancellor
scholarship
Educational funding or erudition
- publicationIssued written material
- journalRecord of daily events
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
thesis · methodology · citation · hypothesis · bibliography · footnotes · abstract · findings · data · empirical
discourse
Formal communication on subjects
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- inquiryRequest for information
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
epistemology · pedagogy · paradigm · canon · dialectic · hermeneutics · praxis · semiotics · ontology · rhetoric
ivory-tower
Sheltered intellectual enclave
- collegialCharacterized by peer cooperation
- elitismPreference for privileged rule
- credentialProof of qualification
prestige · peer · mentor · protege · cohort · networking · politics · hierarchy · gatekeeping · nepotism
Academiaindustry
Economic production sector
business · commerce · Wall Street · Silicon Valley · trade
- police academiesLaw enforcement training centers
- police academyLaw enforcement training institution
- academic yearEducational institution's annual cycle
- service academyInstitution training future officers
- academic debateFormal intellectual argument
- art academyInstitution teaching visual disciplines
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