"academic goal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to an achievement or objective which is related to academic study. For example, "I have set myself the academic goal of achieving an A grade in this course".
"We really didn't think this was an academic goal," he remembered.
Universities have created their own academic underclass, whose job is to play football and basketball — and whose academic goal isn't to actually learn anything but merely to stay eligible.
Ask students to write down one academic goal they would like to accomplish over the next year and have them illustrate it on a poster that they share with their classmates.
Rather, the (academic) goal would be to describe the positions of the two theorists, compare them, note their place in the history of political thought, trace the influences that produced them and chart their own influence on subsequent thinkers in the tradition.
Venter was walking a tightrope between achieving the academic goal of recognition and the commercial goal of making money.
Similarly, academic goal progress is found to influence both academic and life satisfaction (Ojeda, Flores, & Navarro, 2011; Singley, Lent, & Sheu, 2010).
Be warned: you may lose sight of your academic goals.
When academic goals are stressed at school and at home, students succeed.
It considers growth in student learning, as measured by progress on state and local tests and attainment of academic goals.
They also held group family therapy with the young men's parents, created rules and set long-term academic goals.
The state does not require them to do so, instead permitting districts to set academic goals for teachers, broadly defined.
