The phrase "academic connections" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the connections or relationships that exist between different academic concepts, theories, or disciplines. Example: The professor's research on the link between psychology and economics highlights the importance of academic connections in understanding human behavior.
The network of academic connections was important from the beginning.
Einstein did not have good academic connections, which made it hard to secure a teaching post, but was recognised as a physicist of the first rank very early in his career.
After World War II, Dr. Cartan helped French and German mathematicians re-establish academic connections even though the Germans had executed a younger brother of his, who was a member of the French resistance.
After Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, it ramped up its academic connections and in 2008 opened two collaborative labs on university campuses, one at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
In the right circumstances, their model might serve others who want to do serious research but lack traditional academic connections.
The IFG thus explores both the economic and cultural aspects of aging, and uses its academic connections to keep up with the latest scientific research as well.
Mr. Neeleman agreed to participate because of Dr. Freeley's academic connection, said Carol Archer, his assistant.
Since neither Bundy nor I had an academic connection, Bundy suggested that we recruit some academics as "window dressing".
Harlem Hospital will still have an academic connection with Columbia — its doctors can serve as faculty members — but will no longer be employees of Columbia.
The Study at Yale — which plays up the academic connection with old-fashioned spectacles for its logo and a bookmark slipped into the sleeve for the electronic room key — did not disappoint.
If a botanical garden is defined by its scientific or academic connection, then the first true botanical gardens were established with the revival of learning that occurred in the European Renaissance.
