Sentence examples for academic conformity from inspiring English sources

Anyone who attacks academic conformity has my vote, but Mr. Waters's polemic is contradictory and often too tame.

Mr Summers merely suggested further research in the field in the face of academic conformity, so prevalent on campuses today.

Nowadays, popular culture is portraying dropouts as self-made zillionaires whose decision to spurn the "safe" route (academic conformity) is akin to lighting out for the territories to strike gold.

Turns out, academic conformity sells, and business is booming: As of 2011, Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board,nonprofit owner of SAT, was paid $1.3 million.

That sounds fine, except that the saccharine stories represent a rich commercial opportunity for their government-approved creator, Sali Rayner, and place social conformity above academic excellence.

The Sixties: Civil Rights, Vietnam, Environmental and Women's movements, in loco parentis, squaring off against academic, social and political conformity.

In contrast to the stuffiness and conformity of many academic settings, gender studies students and scholars are tolerant, friendly, and enlightened in their attitudes to race, sexual orientation and transsexuality.

Joanna Williams, author of Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity, says students' closer relationship with managers has not always been healthy, particularly when it comes to free speech and imposing the Prevent legislation, designed to deter radicalisation.

To him, the children's books and even the essays were not accomplishments but shameful evidence of my lack of conformity to the university's academic ideals.

Controls on the internet and other media remain just as tight, heavy security measures remain in force in Tibetan areas and academics complain of stepped-up efforts to ensure ideological conformity on campuses.

However, they also believed that social pressure to perform was so strong in the academic community that it created "a form of social determinism leading to conformity with social values through a concession of personal values" [ 82].