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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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Seriously considering skipping yet another academic team match for the @daysdifference chat tomorrow.
Peyton_Michelle (Peyton Johnson) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:19:37 -0000
Seriously considering skipping yet another academic team match for the @daysdifference chat tomorrow.
@wilbanks gah. that's part of the reason I'm not one. academic writing gives me ulcers.
thereporat (Dorothea Salo) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:17:56 -0000
@wilbanks gah. that's part of the reason I'm not one. academic writing gives me ulcers.
Amazing. RT Academic sentence generator: http://bit.ly/2KCfz (via @ibogost)
mike_treanor (Mike Treanor) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:14:05 -0000
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Volunteerism academic excellence = two outstanding CSUSB graduating business students http://bit.ly/EQun .
berlardlwhite61 (Berlard L. White) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:13:07 -0000
Volunteerism academic excellence = two outstanding CSUSB graduating business students http://bit.ly/EQun .
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ibogost (Ian Bogost) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:04:36 -0000
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File Sharing and Academic Journals http://bit.ly/2TNv08
resourceshelf (resourceshelf) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:04:36 -0000
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Boston College: Center for Nursing Research - Contains an overview of the Center, newsletters, information on policies and procedures, and the school's facilities. Located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.
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Center for Nursing Research at the Boston College
William F. Connell School of Nursing.
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Curtin University of Technology: Centre for Nursing Research and Development - Contains the current activities, events calendar, and an overview of the Centre and the Director. Located in Perth, Australia.
George Mason University: Center for Outcomes Research and Data Analysis - Information on the CORDA standard services, the staff, their services, research, events, and the campus. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, United States.
Griffith University: Faculty of Nursing and Health - Overview of research at the faculty, and a listing of the school's areas of strength in research. Located in Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
Indiana University: Center for Nursing Research - Includes a mission statement, and information on the faculty and student's research. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
James Cook University: School of Nursing Sciences - Contains information on present research interests and projects. Located in North Queensland, Australia
Meta Description: [ Funded Research ]
Johns Hopkins University: Center for Nursing Research - Includes the purpose and function of the Center, information about the Director, research interests, intramural grants, their policies and procedures, funding, and how to set up a mock grant review. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Keele University - Department of Nursing and Midwifery. Contains the aims of the programme, meetings venues, and a diary of seminars. Located in Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Meta Description: [ Home page of the Keele University School of Nursing & Midwifery ]
La Trobe University: School of Health and Human Sciences - Includes information on postgraduate opportunities, scholarships, interests, and staff profiles. Bendigo, New South Wales, Australia.
Manitoba Nursing Research Institute - Includes news, funding opportunities, research initiatives, publications, advisory board members, services, ethical review, and a staff list. Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
McGill University School of Nursing: Research Unit - Features information on conferences, funding sources, writing a proposal, guidelines, literature searches, journals, research. Montréal, Québec, Canada
Queensland University of Technology: Centre for Nursing Research - Contains overview, scholarship and fellowship information, staff, current projects, and publications. Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.
Meta Description: [ The Centre for Nursing Research (CNR) focusses on cancer, disability, gerontology, mental health, symptom management, women's health and child health ]
The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Department of Nursing - Includes the foci of nursing research and the faculty's research interests. Located in Hong Kong, China.
Trinity College of the University of Dublin - School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies. Offers description of programs and lists of student theses and publications. Dublin, Ireland.
Meta Description: [ School of Nursing, Trinity College Dublin ]
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University at Buffalo: Center for Nursing Research - Site includes history, goals, staff, and the CNR newsletter. Located in Buffalo, NY.
Meta Description: [ School of Nursing at the State University of New York at Buffalo ]
University of Adelaide - Includes program overview, research focus, and funded projects. Located in Adelaide, Australia.
University of British Columbia: Office for Nursing Research - Primary studies include chronic illness, cross-cultural studies, population health and health promotion. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Meta Description: [ The UBC School of Nursing provides an intellectual environment that facilitates
and supports coordinated programs of research, research utilization and other
scholarly activities. Through the activities of faculty in their programs of
research and the Office for Nursing Research and Teachin... ]
University of Glasgow: Nursing and Midwifery School - Includes information on research themes, research interests of staff and current publications. Located in Glasgow, Scotland
Meta Description: [ The Nursing & Midwifery School aims to provide leadership in multi-professional healthcare research, education and practice at local, national and international levels. Our academic ethos is research-led, facilitates the skills for lifelong learning ]
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University of Kuopio: Department of Nursing Science - Includes health care education and multidisciplinary research. Located in Kuopio, Finland.
University of Leeds - School of Healthcare Studies. Includes information about programs, prerequisites, and requirements. Located in Leeds, England.
University of Michigan: School of Nursing - Includes information on research centers and research groups. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Meta Description: [ University of Michigan School of Nursing Research ]
University of Pennsylvania: Center for Nursing Research - Includes information on available resources and areas of nursing research at the university. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
University of Sheffield: School of Nursing and Midwifery - Includes information on specific research degrees, key research areas, and current Research Projects. Located in Sheffield, England.
University of Stirling - Dept of Nursing and Midwifery - Offers information on events, newsletter, and active research on phantom limb pain, decision-making, nurse education, mental health, and ethics. Stirling, Scotland.
University of Sydney - Nursing Research Centre for Adaptation in Health and Illness - (Sydney, Australia) Originial material features overview and information about centre, staff, publications, research area, Launch 99 report, and nursing research workshops.
University of Toronto - Faculty of Nursing Science - Offers information about services offered to faculty and graduate students, conferences, and newsletter. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
University of Ulster - Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and Education - Includes list of degrees offered, research areas of staff and postgraduates, research opportunities, and information about grants and Pproposals. Belfast, Northern Ireland.
University of Utah: Office of Research and Scholarship - Includes brochure and faculty list. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Meta Description: [ University of Utah College of Nursing research scholarship ]
University of Wales - Faculty of Health - Includes description of program, current and recent research projects and faculty research interests. Bangor, Wales.
University of York: Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing - Centre history, research interests, staff, departmental publications, post-graduate research and study opportunities for collaboration. York, England.
Vanderbilt University: Joint Center for Nursing Research - Includes a message from the Dean of Research, mission statement, description of resource personnel, and policies and procedures. Nashville, Tennessee.
Meta Description: [ Information about Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, advanced practice nursing and general health care issues. Information is intended for
students, staff and faculty of the Vanderbilt University community and the World Wide Web community. ]
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