Academic institution is an educational institution dedicated to higher education and research, which grants academic degrees. See also academy and university. Japanese secondary school students in uniform A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ... Higher education is education provided by universities and other institutions that award academic degrees, such as university colleges, and liberal arts colleges. ... Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories. ... This article is about academic degrees. ... An academy is an institution for the study of higher learning. ... A professor teaching in a university A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...
In addition, academicinstitutions generally have an overall administrative structure (usually including a president and several deans) which is controlled by no single department, discipline, or field of thought.
Academic insularity is sometimes referred to as the ivory tower.
Academic societies served both as a forum to present and publish academic work, the role now served by academic publishing, and as a means to sponsor research and support academics, a role they still serve.
Academicinstitutions often face the charge of Academic elitism, sometimes called the Ivory Tower.
Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic environments only those individuals who have engaged in scholarship are deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do.
A lesser and broader form of this, Intellectual elitism, exists in non-academic circles, however academic elitism might also be viewed as a further extreme of intellectual elitism, depending upon one's perspective.
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