academic institution
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.18 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An educational institution, dedicated to teaching and/or research.
noun
An educational institution, dedicated to higher education and research, that grants academic degrees.
Example Sentences
- "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 to pay for this compliance."
- "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."
- "Outside the school system exists a dense network of academic institutions, consisting of home tutors, correspondence schools, juku, and exam prep schools."
- "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."
- "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 studies programs."
- "The primary burden of recruiting, hiring, evaluating, promoting, and terminating faculty rests with department heads in virtually all academic institutions, although their decisions are generally made in consultation with others ..."