The phrase "academic mind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who thinks critically, analytically, or in a scholarly manner, often in the context of education or intellectual pursuits.
Example: "Her academic mind allows her to approach complex problems with a level of depth and understanding that is truly impressive."
Alternatives: "scholarly mindset" or "intellectual perspective".
Of all the issues that might have captured the academic mind, why has this one come front and center?
"The European academic mind set has not been much interested in diversifying the sources of funding," Dr. Salmi said.
Another weakness of the academic mind in dealing with teenagers, as with other topics, is a tendency to substitute vocabulary for thought.
An academic mind needs to be challenged and nourished, and conferences are the best opportunity for an academic to get both.
Like the Sphinx, she keeps her mysteries, leading the media a merry dance by speaking only in intriguing riddles, cloaked with the kind of rich symbolism and allegory that requires a keen academic mind to unpick.
Ever since Ellington, Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton struck up the soundtrack to the bawdy, boozy twenties, popular music has been the high-speed vehicle for youth rebellion, sexual liberation, and chemical experimentation, none of which yield willingly to the academic mind.
There's no reason why there shouldn't be a creditable open access book publisher in every university around the world, but it is going to require a collective shift in the academic mind-set.
"If you're out in the work force and out of an academic mind-set for years," Mr. Fraser said, "who are you going to turn to?" For adults, a degree is a means rather than an end, says David Petersam, president of AdmissionsConsultants in Vienna, Va.
They are often staffed by the brightest academic minds in mathematics and physics.
Now, he recruits basketball players who happen to be among the nation's top academic minds.
"It was a mix of super-brilliant academic minds and super-sexual frustration," he said.
