The phrase "a given academic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific academic or scholar in a general sense, often in discussions about theories, research, or contributions in academia.
Example: "In the context of this study, a given academic may have differing opinions on the validity of the results."
Alternatives: "a specific scholar" or "an individual academic".
Normally no more than 10% of graduating majors receive departmental honors in a given academic year.
Typically no more than 10% of graduating majors receive departmental honors in a given academic year.
The Growth Committee will determine the number of sororities or fraternities that may begin in a given academic year.
The Enter Teaching Data page displays an interactive list of all the subjects offered within a given academic term for a specific department.
Opportunities are highly dependent on faculty need, and it is difficult to predict the number and kinds of jobs that will be available in a given academic year.
Subjects are what many people typically think of as courses, i.e., a series of classes offered during a given academic period.
As well as a director who's given academics, like Slavoj Žižek, plenty to ponder.
Congress endorsed a controversial plan to shut down NOAA's National Undersea Research Program (NURP), a $4 million program that gives academic scientists access to research submersibles, and to fold it into the agency's broader ocean exploration program.
In a field not noted for lively prose, Mr. Steinberg gave academic writing a personal voice: didactic, often urgently polemical, yet generously ruminative, enriched by vivid metaphors, strewn with unfamiliar vocabulary and sometimes idiosyncratic coinages but blessedly free of jargon.
If that seems unsurprising, given all that has been reported about fraudulent and loose lending activity in the subprime sector during the housing market bubble, it is by no means a given among academics.
China faces similar problems but has managed to woo some overseas talent by appealing to patriotism and giving academics a chance to work in an innovative economy.
