The phrase "academic diversity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the variety of academic disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds present in an educational setting or institution.
Example: "The university prides itself on fostering academic diversity, encouraging students from various fields to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects."
Alternatives: "intellectual diversity" or "scholarly diversity".
But critics say there is only a weak link between racial and academic diversity.
"International students bring cultural and academic diversity to our university," said Miranda Cheng, director of the center.
A decision barring the use of race in admission decisions would undo an accommodation reached in the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in 2003 in Grutter v. Bollinger: that public colleges and universities could not use a point system to increase minority enrollment but could take race into account in vaguer ways to ensure academic diversity.
That isn't a serious approach to academic diversity, and in an emerging majority-minority America (already visible in the latest Census birth statistics) where almost everyone will be 1/8 something-or-other, it will be an increasingly untenable one as well.
Academic diversity then becomes an endowment that raises the probability of starting a business.
This makes students' academic diversity comparable when holding course portfolio of college programs constant.
More than 800 faculty members have signed petitions, contending that the mascot interferes with fulfilling an academic mission, diversity.
It now is considering the use of "academic achievement diversity" indicators, like whether a child attended preschool, said a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Unified School District.
As shown in the last two columns, individual entrepreneurs obtain a significant positive return to academic skill diversity (AC_SPEC), while persistent laborers do not.
The priorities he has set for UCLA during his administration include academic excellence, diversity, civic engagement and financial security.
The report is based on more than 90 written submissions and 13 oral statements from members of the U.K. academic community, diversity-promoting organizations, universities, funding bodies, and the government.
