The phrase "academics were given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the provision of resources, opportunities, or tasks to academics, such as researchers or educators.
Example: "In the recent study, academics were given access to new funding opportunities to enhance their research projects."
Alternatives: "scholars were provided" or "researchers received".
Philip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, pointed out that "in China academics are given extra money — often significant amounts — if they publish in good journals".
Academics are given resources to teach.
But now a new project developed by Bournemouth University academics is giving surfers access to a virtual prehistoric landscape: Stonehenge.
Academics too were given to this excess, as many an Oxford or Cambridge chapel shows.
On Monday, students who reached certain levels of academic improvement were given a certificate and a snack.
Academic papers were given at a weekend which also included presentations by such avant- garde luminaries as the Canadian film-maker Michael Snow and the body-modification artists Orlan and Stelarc.
As an example, she cited a study, carried out with a graduate student, Lora Park, in which college freshmen who based their self-esteem on academic achievement were given a test and then either told that they had failed or given no feedback.
Short version: In the 70s, the government mandated that women's sports needed to be funded equally with men's, with the (correct) observation that women weren't getting near the opportunities as men - academic scholarships were given as a reward for athletic prowess.
A Brown report found that low non-academic ratings were given to Asian-American applicants "due to cultural biases and stereotypes which prevail in the admissions office". Furthermore, use of a "historical benchmark," a mechanism that sets enrollment goals in terms of prior freshman classes, lowered the admission rate of Asian-Americans as their applications increased.
The community college academic senates thus were given vast, unprecedented powers that the legislature never intended them to have, formal authority beyond that of any other academic senate in the country.
