"academic body" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually describes an organization or institution that oversees or is responsible for academic affairs. For example, "The academic body at my university recently created a new scholarship program for incoming students."
There is also, mirabile dictu, an academic body for teaching and research in "philosophy and religious studies," whose hybrid name and very existence is profoundly objectionable.
"I go to the senate, which is the academic body of the university, and it's all white except for two or three guys from Ghana or someplace.
In a study released on Tuesday, Canada's leading scientific and academic body recommended the legalization of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The East Grinstead closure is being pushed through against the wishes of the university's highest academic body, the senate, without a clear business plan and in defiance of previous assurances to staff.
No academic body sets the tone, and the few critics who try to measure new art by traditional standards of quality have lost even their power to irritate or annoy.
A prestigious US academic body has joined a growing movement to boycott Israel in protest at its treatment of Palestinians, in a move both welcomed and condemned in a bitterly divisive international arena.
In 2011 one assault was traced to Chinese academic bodies.
Two other US academic bodies – the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Association of American Asian Studies – have also backed the boycott movement.
A Brexit could, in any event, have a significant impact on the makeup of British universities' student and academic bodies.
The issue is gaining traction even among US academic bodies, previously thought impervious due to the oft cited "unbreakable bond" between the two countries.
We need competent legislation, enforcement and leadership from medical academic bodies, all clearly stating that nonpublication of trial results is nothing less than research misconduct.
