The phrase "a time when academic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific period or instance related to academic activities or experiences.
Example: "I often think back to a time when academic pressure was at its peak during finals week."
Alternatives: "a period when academic" or "an era when academic".
He and others see missed opportunities, particularly at a time when academic medical centers are in dire financial straits.
At a time when academic historians were becoming increasingly suspicious of "grand narratives", he saw how important it was to understand the broader forces of historical change.
In 1992, at a time when academic stars had begun to flee strapped public universities for richer private ones, Cronon, by then a professor at Yale, left to go back to Madison.
— Tanya Abrams You've made it to the critical midwinter transition in your college search, a time when academic and personal maturity has set you up to dig into research and self-assessment in earnest.
The long row of his books on my shelves display an impressively wide knowledge of modern literature and culture, communicated in effortlessly readable prose at a time when academic criticism became increasingly heavy with jargon.
He got his Ph.D. in economics at MIT at a time when academic dogma decreed that the stock market is completely efficient and therefore unbeatable.
After all, in a time when academics will solemnly analyze any contemporary "text" -- even cigarette advertisements -- "South Park" offers enough cultural allusions, and fancy feints of irony, to keep legions of critical theorists busy.
At a time when academics yawned at any mention of immigration studies, DeVos set a generation of younger scholars on a trailblazing path.
They were cut off because they were right-wingers at a time when everyone was a socialist, they were city dwellers when everybody was a toiler of the land, they were academics at a time when academics were regarded with a certain suspicion".
This is not a time when our academic institutions can afford to drift.
The epic will be shown at a time when some academic authorities see a paradox in Americans' relationship to the Bible.
