The phrase "academic obligations" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the responsibilities and duties that a student has in regards to their academic pursuits. Example: "As a university student, I have many academic obligations such as attending lectures, completing assignments, and studying for exams."
And while it is true that American students often behave badly while studying abroad, we should remember that American colleges have created a revenue bonanza by sending their students abroad on programs that provide little in the way of structure or serious academic obligations.
Generally OVT scientists can catch up on field work, academic obligations, and perform upkeep of the monitoring network around the volcano.
Get your required reading or academic obligations out of the way.
White had little time to write due to her other academic obligations, and once said, "belonging to things is an occupational disease of my profession".
When academic obligations reared their not-always-pretty head, we took our studying to a sunny patch on the quad, or an unfamiliar nook in an unexplored building.
The level of expectation, the feeling of being the hunted and not the hunter along with all the financial and academic obligations that go with consistent success when competing with large state schools and ever-expanding football-based conferences make the task even more difficult these days.
We agreed that although somewhat less convenient, using public transportation would facilitate his commute and decrease his financial burden significantly, at the same time freeing up several hours per week that could be spent on his academic obligations--including assignments that otherwise "fell through the cracks".
In the context of academic institutions' obligations to improve the human experience and society, the legitimacy of this scholarly work is clearly obvious.
The current view of scholarship as accrued research grant dollars and publications (the scholarship of discovery) runs counter to academic institutions' obligations to serve society and improve the health and wellbeing of communities using applied and integrated scholarship.
As Harvey and I wrote in 2003: "No one denies that a college can and should ban true harassment -- but a code that calls itself a 'racial-harassment code' does not thereby magically inoculate itself against free-speech and academic-freedom obligations".
Take your calendar and schedule in all of the obligations -- academic, extracurricular, and otherwise -- the dates of which you already know.
