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Academic profession in academic organization

Higher Education, 1985
It has been argued that academic organizations are organized anarchies with ambiguous goal functions and uncertain technologies. Academia cannot evaluate itself because its dynamics is the “garbage-can” process. The counter-argument is that rational academic man(woman) is a substitute for organizational foolishness.
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The academic librarian and the academe

New Library World, 2011
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the increased lack of clarity about the professional role of academic librarians, and where the future lies in the academic environment during this period of fast information environment change.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a literature review and commentary on developments in the area of ...
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Academics Fighting Academics

1997
The arguments of the former Academic Sceptic Antiochus against the ‘Roman books’ of his teacher Philo of Larissa, reported in Cicero’s Lucullus, indicate that his understanding of Stoic epistemology was influenced by his Academic background, and in particular by the arguments of Carneades.
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Academic freedom academic obligation

2018
My first dilemma when it came to writing up this chapter for publication was how to punctuate the title. I first settled on ‘Academic freedom: academic obligation’, with the colon doing the work of an explanation, making the point that it is an academic obligation to ensure academic freedom.
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Academic Dropout or Academic Success

American journal of optometry and physiological optic, 1986
ABSTRACT Why do some students who qualify for admission to optometry school become academic dropouts while others succeed? This question was addressed in a study which compared the admission records of 21 academic dropouts from three classes at the University of Houston College of Optometry (UHCO) with 269 retained students.
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Academic Salaries, Academic Corruption, and the Academic Career

2013
If the academic profession does not maintain adequate income levels, academic performance throughout the system inevitably suffers. Academics must receive sufficient remuneration to live an appropriate middle-class lifestyle—not that they must be paid according to the highest international standards, local levels are generally adequate.
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The Academic Hospice

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005
The academic hospice is a recent development in health care. Hospice programs and hospitals evolved from the same historical roots in Greek and Roman medicine. The academic hospital emerged as a place where patient care, education, and research are pursued as inextricable parts of the mission.
Charles F, von Gunten, True, Ryndes
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The Capabilities of Academics and Academic Poverty

Kyklos, 2014
SummaryThis paper presents a novel analysis about the capabilities of academic researchers and academic poverty. Adopting the capability approach, which Amartya Sen developed to address concerns such as poverty, inequality and development, we shift the focus of analysis and discussion around evaluating academic research and academics in the social ...
Malida Mooken, Roger Sugden
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Academic Freedom/Academic Market

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2009
The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure” assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work ...
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Mentorship of early career academics in Tanzania: issues and implications for the next generation of academics

Higher Education Pedagogies, 2021
Samson John Mgaiwa, Orestes Silverius Kapinga   +1 more
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