The phrase "academic duty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to responsibilities or obligations related to academic work or education.
Example: "As a professor, I believe it is my academic duty to mentor my students and guide them in their research."
Alternatives: "scholarly obligation" or "educational responsibility".
After all, she had to turn up for academic duty at East Berlin's Institute for Physical Chemistry in the morning.
The Beet faculty is hopelessly torn between their high value of "the collective opinion of people in their mid teens" and academic duty.
We, however, believe authors have an academic duty to respond to substantive criticism of their work and therefore cannot be excused because they were not asked to do so by an editor.
He was a capable administrator who quietly and effectively discharged his academic duties.
He established a solid reputation in mathematics, astronomy, and astrology, interspersing his academic duties with service as a court astrologer.
In addition to his academic duties, Davies served for 18 years as the first warden of Neuadd Pantycelyn, the university's Welsh-medium hall of residence.
He juggles his academic duties with a role as managing partner of the Boston Celtics, a National Basketball Association NBAA) team.Professor Grousbeck is part of Boston Basketball Partners LLC, a partnership that bought the Celtics in 2003.
We explicitly linked the primacy of research output in the evaluation of academics to the diminished appreciation of teaching, outreach, translational research, engagement with knowledge users outside academia, peer review and other academic duties.
Last fall, after doctors told him that he would probably have no more than six months of good health, Dr. Pausch stepped down from his academic duties and relocated to be closer to his family.
Unlike the perennially three-piece-suited West (whom McWhorter criticised in the pages of the Wall Street Journal for neglecting his academic duties in favour of cutting rap albums), he tends to dress down.
Twenty-five yeago ago he was "relieved from further academic duties" by Nicholas Murray Butler, for openly expressing sympathy with a colleague who had been dropped from the faculty for getting into a jam with a young woman.
