‘Academia’ is the academic world of colleges and universities, institutions of post-secondary education usually comprised of faculty, administration and students. Those who are ‘in academia’, also known as academics, administer...

1. Relating to a place of learning. 2. One who spends time studying. 3. A member of the teaching or research staff of an educational institution, ie the academic staff as opposed to the support staff. 4. Often contrasted to the practical in the sense...

(1) A teacher or researcher in higher education. (2) An adjective applied to scholarly activities, sometimes as a term of...

Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center...