Some articles on academic:
... Students have access to a variety of academic support resources, including the university's Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) and Student Support Services (SSS), a federally funded TRIO program ... The university offers students individualized attention and academic advising, with an average class size of 14, and a student/faculty ratio of 111 ...
... The divisions are responsible for RMIT's 24 academic schools (21 higher education schools including a graduate/professional school, and three TAFE schools) ... The schools are grouped into three academic portfolios - which are referred to as colleges ... In addition to its academic colleges, the university has a dedicated research portfolio ...
... The Academic Council is an elected body that facilitates the management of the academic system at IIM Bangalore ...
... An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level ... Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their ... Academic disciplines tend to co-evolve with systems of professions ...
... on a student body chosen not only for their academic promise, but also for their character ... The selection process is composed of three major elements 1) the evaluation of academic performance and potential 2) the assessment of individual ... are used to gain an understanding of each student's academic and personal strengths and, thus, give an overall evaluation of the individual's eligibility for admission." ...
More definitions of "academic":
- (adj): Associated with academia or an academy.
Example: "The academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"
- (adj): Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.
Synonyms: donnish, pedantic
- (noun): An educator who works at a college or university.
Synonyms: academician, faculty member
Famous quotes containing the word academic:
“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
“You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn’t kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“If twins are believed to be less intelligent as a class than single-born children, it is not surprising that many times they are also seen as ripe for social and academic problems in school. No one knows the extent to which these kind of attitudes affect the behavior of multiples in school, and virtually nothing is known from a research point of view about social behavior of twins over the age of six or seven, because this hasn’t been studied either.”
—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)