The phrase "academic because the" is not correct and does not form a complete thought in written English.
It may be used in a context where you are explaining a reason related to academic matters, but it requires additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "The research was deemed academic because the findings contributed significantly to the field of study."
Alternatives: "scholarly due to the" or "educational since the".
The application for judicial review was refused last week, on the grounds that the application was "academic", because the benefit had already been approved.
On one level, the commission's decision to end the regulatory program was somewhat academic, because the five biggest independent Wall Street firms have all disappeared.
The Times and The Post aren't naming the academic, because the FBI believes it could endanger the source, but both reports describe a decidedly non-controversial arrangement.
The question is more than academic, because the administration and Congress are considerating whether an attack to depose Mr. Hussein and destroy his deadliest weapons should begin as early as January.
The point is far from academic because the railroad's customers have asked regulators to allow competitors to share more of Union Pacific's tracks or even undo the Southern Pacific merger.
Can and should authorities simply ban such gatherings if they suspect that violent types plan to mix in?The question is far from academic, because the same groups who organised the Cologne riots, or individuals who could be linked to them, have already registered similar "demonstrations" for November in Berlin and Hamburg.
It's paradoxical that Feldman ended his career as an academic, because, in the 1950's and 60's, at least, his music represented a distinct alternative to the sort of stuff coming out of universities.
Arguments over the Arctic were until recently academic because of the depth of the ice, but global warming has seen some of it melt, making drilling feasible.
"I speak for a generation of brilliant minds who may never become graduate students or academics because the mountain of debt required to get through undergraduate life creates an impossible pressure to start paying it off.
Rutgers Magazine's editorial director testified at a hearing on Wednesday that the magazine did not publish the 1998 ad on behalf of the Rutgers Advisory Council 1000, a group that wants the school to spend less money on sports and more on academics, because the ad violated the magazine's policy against issue-oriented ads.
The NCAA said Schwartzberg, appearing at a hearing, told an NCAA investigative panel "that the previous director of athletics and previous head men's basketball coach told him to monitor student-athletes' academics because the institution was concerned about its Academic Progress Rate". He said he had logged on to the students' accounts in that capacity.
