academia
Higher education community
Academia is the world of colleges, universities, and scholarly research—the institutions, people, and culture devoted to higher learning.
Someone in academia works as a professor or researcher rather than in industry or government.
The term often carries connotations of ivory-tower detachment: That theory sounds good in academia but fails in practice.
Academic politics, publish-or-perish pressures, and the job market for professors are all part of academia.
Educational program's content plan
- syllabusCourse plan document
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
- tutoringIndividual academic guidance
- pedagogyArt of instruction
teaching · coursework · seminar · assessment · grading · rubric · recitation · didactics
Institutional grounds and buildings
- tenureProtected employment status
- professorSenior university teacher
- facultyInherent power or ability
- deanSenior academic administrator
provost · lecturer · undergraduate · graduate · doctoral · postdoctoral · dissertation · thesis
Extended leave from work
- colloquiumAcademic discussion meeting
- symposiumFormal expert discussion meeting
- conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
- seminarGroup discussion for learning
tenure-track · plagiarism · ethics · ivory-tower · jargon · interdisciplinary · discourse · workshop
Record of daily events
- monographSingle-topic scholarly work
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- bibliographyList of cited works
- footnotesMarginal citations below text
citations · abstract · thesis · peer-reviewed · endnotes · manuscript · anthology · proceedings
Systematic testing of ideas
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- publicationIssued written material
- findingsConclusions from investigation
laboratory · empirical · fieldwork · qualitative · quantitative · grants · funding · collaboration
Study of fundamental truths
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- analysisMethodical study of parts
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
dialectic · epistemology · abstraction · conceptual · discourse · paradigm · synthesis · hermeneutics
curriculum
Educational program's content plan
- syllabusCourse plan document
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
- tutoringIndividual academic guidance
pedagogy · teaching · coursework · seminar · assessment · grading · rubric · recitation · didactics · prerequisites
campus
Institutional grounds and buildings
dean · provost · lecturer · undergraduate · graduate · doctoral · postdoctoral · dissertation · thesis · alumni
sabbatical
Extended leave from work
- colloquiumAcademic discussion meeting
- symposiumFormal expert discussion meeting
- conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
seminar · tenure-track · plagiarism · ethics · ivory-tower · jargon · interdisciplinary · discourse · workshop · networking
journal
Record of daily events
- monographSingle-topic scholarly work
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- bibliographyList of cited works
footnotes · citations · abstract · thesis · peer-reviewed · endnotes · manuscript · anthology · proceedings · index
experimentation
Systematic testing of ideas
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- publicationIssued written material
findings · laboratory · empirical · fieldwork · qualitative · quantitative · grants · funding · collaboration · breakthrough
philosophy
Study of fundamental truths
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- analysisMethodical study of parts
reasoning · dialectic · epistemology · abstraction · conceptual · discourse · paradigm · synthesis · hermeneutics · ontology
- careersdoctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, nurse
- institucionesescuela, universidad, hospital, biblioteca, museo
- fieldsbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering
- Dark AcademiaLatin, Greek, classics, literature, Oxford
- highbrowopera, ballet, symphony, classical music, art gallery
- intellectual spacephilosophy, discourse, debate, theory, research
- 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
academic, academy, academics, academies, nonacademic, academician, academe, academically, unacademic