Academia - Academic Personnel

Academic Personnel

An academic is a person who works as a teacher and researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

Academic administrators such as university presidents are not typically included in this use of the term academic, although many administrators hold advanced degrees and pursue scholarly research and writing while also tending to their administrative duties.

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