How to Use nonacademic in a Sentence

nonacademic

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• Research shows play is a proven way for students to learn academic and nonacademic skills.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2020
• How refreshing that someone has the courage to express the views shared by so many of the nonacademic population.
  — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 15 Apr. 2017
• If and when academic jobs rebound, Fuhrmann hopes the way will be open for scientists who took nonacademic jobs and would like to return.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• The state is using that power to add a nonacademic factor, like a measure of absenteeism to the grading system.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
• The teenagers, as well as Spone’s daughter, were members of the Victory Vipers, a private, nonacademic cheerleading team in Doylestown.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• That initiative will allow the district to track students' skills — both academic and nonacademic — from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018
• To help pay for some of those athletic and other nonacademic needs, the district signed a 25-year naming rights agreement with Acuity Insurance.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• They were known for their surrealism, their nonacademic nature and their focus on the connections between the natural world and the human mind.
  — Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• Luckily, there are plenty of nonacademic books about African politics out there.
  — Laura Seay, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
• But some paleontologists are not pleased that the fossil is now in a collector’s home and will reside in a nonacademic institution in the coming months.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• His all-volunteer role is a meeting point of his professional pursuits and his nonacademic passions.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Even students who lust for Ivy admission spend hundreds of hours a year in nonacademic pursuits because the most selective U.S. colleges think that’s a good sign of character and potential.
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• Dining facilities will move to grab-and-go service and all nonacademic indoor events of 50 people or more through Feb. 6 will require special permission.
  — Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• Travelers eligible for the vaccine were less likely to receive it at clinics in the South or at nonacademic medical centers.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2017
• Kieznerds organizers had hoped that a considerable part of the audience would be nonacademic.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2018
• For Marinello, Abolition Apostles and its monthly meetings create spaces to discuss and learn about the prison-industrial complex through a nonacademic lens.
  — Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 July 2021
• Hannah-Jones’ tenure application was submitted to UNC’s trustees in 2020, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• Hannah-Jones' tenure application was submitted to UNC's trustees last year, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Tom Foreman Jr. and Aaron Morrison, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• The very notion that a scholarly organization should take a stand on nonacademic issues was practically unheard of.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• In searching for the most vivid possible presentation of his subject, Lanzmann has been led to reinvent many of the principles of modernist and structuralist filmmaking, which here acquire a new kind of nonacademic urgency and justness.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
• Hannah-Jones' tenure application was submitted to the university's trustees in 2020, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
• Leaving aside that nonacademic opinion is no reason for punishing an academic, Mr. Treanor’s reaction is one more case of harassing dissenters.
  — Philip Hamburger, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• How big a threat to traditional colleges and universities are nonacademic providers of advanced education?
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• But for years now, nonacademic programs have proliferated on campus with the intention of preparing students for life on, and more importantly beyond, campus.
  — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• In an ideal world, researchers would be able to return benefits to the community without involving nonacademic external parties.
  — Brenna Henn, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
• History’s armies of nonacademic readers will find this obvious and undeniable.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The partial recovery has taken place as the companies have found new sources of revenue—such as e-commerce—and made further inroads into college-test preparation, adult-education programs and nonacademic courses such as robotics and art.
  — Michelle Chan, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• If a district has nonacademic priorities, such as set-asides for children with disabilities, those in temporary housing or English-language learners, those preferences will remain as well.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• These repayment and default rates reflect significantly lower graduation rates for students in those groups, who typically need to work long hours while also in school and hence engage less with both the academic and nonacademic aspects of college.
  — Kate Padgett Walsh, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2020
• The university cuts would eliminate at least 78 academic and nonacademic positions.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024