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Sullivan "was among those who defined the place and purpose of Catholic higher education in American academia, culture and religion, while animating the university with the modern emphases of the Jesuit mission," Sundborg wrote.

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  • Sullivan "was among those who defined the place and purpose of Catholic higher education in American academia, culture and religion, while animating the university with the modern emphases of the Jesuit mission," Sundborg wrote. —  SU Headlines
  • But criticizing President Bush during the past 8 years for overreaching was hardly out of fashion, especially not in American academia, especially not by a tenured professor, and especially not last April in the middle of an election season. —  Law Talk: Legal Scholarship Podcast
  • However I seriously doubt you know anything about the current discourse on war memory in Japanese academia. —  AMPONTAN
  • I already loved Italy before going and I wanted to be in Florence, a cradle of art: the academia is there, museums, everything. —  Yemen Observer
  • Enemy 1 is the anti-Western bias of our media and academia, which is a common theme throughout the Western world. —  Gates of Vienna
 

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  1. New Latin acadēmīa, from Latin, the Academy; see academy.
 

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