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  • 1Academic freedom — is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by students and faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy. They argue that academic communities are repeatedly targeted for repression due to their ability to shape and control the flow… …

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  • 2Academic art — is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities.Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux arts, which practiced under the …

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  • 3Academic freedom at Brigham Young University — has been the subject of several controversies regarding the school, mostly focusing on its religious nature. In 1992, BYU issued a statement limiting academic freedom in certain areas, including language that attacked The Church of Jesus Christ… …

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  • 4Academic elitism — is a charge sometimes levied at academic institutions and academics more broadly; use of the term ivory tower often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism. Academic elitism is also related to the concept of intellectual elitism …

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  • 5Academic detailing — is “university based educational outreach.” [ Soumerai SB, Avorn J. Principles of educational outreach ( academic detailing ) to improve clinical decision making. JAMA.1990;263(4):549 56.] The process involves face to face education of… …

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  • 6Academic boycotts of Israel — Several proposals have been made by academics and organisations in the United Kingdom to boycott Israeli universities and academics. The goal of proposed academic boycotts is to isolate Israel in order to force a change in Israel s policies… …

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  • 7Academic boycott of South Africa — The Academic boycotts of South Africa were a series of boycotts of South African academic institutions and scholars initiated in the 1960s, at the request of the African National Congress, with the goal of using such international pressure to… …

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  • 8Academic term — An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms , semesters , quarters , or trimesters , depending on the institution and the country.In… …

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  • 9Academic history — An academic history can mean a large, multivolume work such as the Cambridge Modern History , written collaboratively under some central editorial control. In the nineteenth century, the idea appeared in universities that a definitive history… …

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  • 10academic — 1 adjective 1 (usually before noun) connected with education, especially at college or university level: She loved the city, with its academic atmosphere. | academic books | a program designed to raise academic standards 2 (usually before noun)… …

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