Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and peer-reviewed 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 of learning. The sacred space had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms acadème and académie.

An academic is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university or similar institution in post-secondary (or tertiary) education. He or she is nearly always an advanced degree holder who does peer-reviewed research. In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor. In the United Kingdom, various titles are used, typically fellow, lecturer, reader and professor (see also academic rank), though the loose term don is often popularly substituted. The term "scholar" is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of "academic" and describes in general those who attain mastery in research discipline. It has wider application in its being also used to describe those whose occupation was scientific or pseudo-scientific research prior to mass organised higher education.

Academic administrators are not typically included in this use of the term academic.

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@egveitikkje Russell Kirk, at the other end of the ideological spectrum, also wrote quite a bit on the decline of American academia.
jonkiblermccabe (Jon Kibler-McCabe) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:57:44 -0000
@egveitikkje Russell Kirk, at the other end of the ideological spectrum, also wrote quite a bit on the decline of American academia.
@baxiabhishek That is the hope, that I will be in India in 2011, for the World Cup and academia.
paperstargirl (Nicole Sobotker) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:54:41 -0000
@baxiabhishek That is the hope, that I will be in India in 2011, for the World Cup and academia.
Pra que academia? Vai pra Woods #porumawoodscomventilação
letineubuser (Letícia Neubuser) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:45:50 -0000
Pra que academia? Vai pra Woods #porumawoodscomventilação
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mhhafizm (M H Hafiz M) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:44:11 -0000
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mhhafizm (M H Hafiz M) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:44:08 -0000
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RT @DoomSDMF o inter não podia ter ganho a libertadores. ñ tem cara do clube. academia do povo tinha que seguir dando show de mediocridade
fabiorodutra (fabio) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:39:47 -0000
RT @DoomSDMF o inter não podia ter ganho a libertadores. ñ tem cara do clube. academia do povo tinha que seguir dando show de mediocridade

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