We were naturally inclined towards not doing anything that was super-academic from the very beginning.
Competing with this goal is the desire of these schools to present themselves as microcosms of egalitarian diversity, driving elite college admission offices to accept both the super-academics and a variety of other applicants who offer geographic diversity, or are underrepresented minorities or first-generation college attendees.
"It was a mix of super-brilliant academic minds and super-sexual frustration," he said.
If you don't care for his writing, you can feel that he's just a postmodern antiquarian, a super-literate academic who stitched together a pastiche of his many nineteenth- and twentieth-century influences, and infused the result with doomy melancholy and unease.
Theirs seemed to be a charmed school district -- a place of hearty volunteerism, where high school seniors went on to Ivy League colleges, and residents believed their school board was run by "the best and the brightest" -- a team of savvy lawyers, corporate executives and super-educated academics.
Much of Europe has long had a system where a few super-elite academics have tenured chairs, but for every Herr Doktor Professor, there are several underlings.
Enrollments went up, and eventually academic super stars came on board.
In 2006, a Times Higher Education Supplement survey reckoned him to be one of 12 UK academic "super-earners", and in his department, at least five people have become millionaires.
What about the authors of super-important works of academic non-fiction (if academics qualify as professional writers, which they should if they're not abusing tenure)?
The internet and social media have created a super-Guttenberg press for the academic sector, allowing researchers to crowdsource edits and feedback, turning reports into living documents.
