The phrase "academic universe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the broad environment or community of academia, including institutions, scholars, and research.
Example: "Navigating the academic universe can be challenging for new researchers trying to find their place."
Alternatives: "academic realm" or "scholarly community".
Design and methods: A search on Lexis-Nexus Academic Universe revealed 136 newspaper articles using senior moment 181 times between 1991 and 2000.
Norton studied at Chicago, the center of the Straussian academic universe, and the book has the flavor of an amusing tell-all.
However, I'm still a research professor at Earlham and still work full-time in the academic universe.
This is a college town like no other, a place with a distinctive heartbeat of its own, wrapped around the academic universe of Cornell.
But in the last seven years, apart from periodically advising the second President Bush and making occasional television appearances, Professor Boskin said little that was heard outside the academic universe.
The Libraries also offer The New York Times through Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (http://libraries.mit.edu/get/lexis-nexis), which is optimized for searches, rather than casual browsing of the day's news.
Disturbance in the universe?
A man with greasepaint on his face to the academic world, too enamored of libraries in the opinion of theater people, he straddles these two universes, looking for ways to reconcile them even as he plays the role of provocateur.
The issue is that the types of models currently employed exist in parallel universes, with different academic journals, university departments, and languages.
Yet even as quick-fix programs with names like "Taking the Bully by the Horns" proliferate across the academic and electronic universe, experts in aggressive behavior warn that there is no easy way to stamp out bullying among children.
The painting could neither be defined according to "the drab world of naturalistic prose", nor its opposite, the universe of "absurd academic fictions".
