academic institution

Noun

academic institution (plural academic institutions)

1. An educational institution, dedicated to teaching and/or research.
   • Hazardous waste disposal problems confronted by academic institutions have reached critical proportions today. Schools, colleges, and universities are faced with the harsh reality of compliance with regulations that ten years ago did not exist; in many cases, their administrators are not prepared...1990, James A. Kaufman, Waste Disposal in Academic Institutions, →ISBN
   • A century ago the high school was primarily an academic institution—in the sense that its curriculum was dominated by academic subjects, and in the more disparaging sense that formal schooling was distant from the political, community, and economic life outside its doors.2009, W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson, The Education Gospel, →ISBN, page 29
2. An educational institution, dedicated to higher education and research, that grants academic degrees.
   • The second question raised is what conditions influence the abilities of incoming freshmen, as reflected in their Scholastic Aptitude Tests, given by the College Entrance Examination Board and available for most though not all academic institutions.1994, Peter Michael Blau, The Organization of Academic Work, →ISBN, page 131
   • Of the teaching assistants, black female graduate students comprised 80 percent in 1995. It should be borne in mind, however, that these figures do not pertain to all academic institutions for the obvious reason that not all academic institutions have women's studies programs nor African American...1997, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Renée T. White, Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions, →ISBN, page 22