Academic

An academic is someone whose career is in academia, which Wikipedia describes as "a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole".  This type is used to show information about such people that does not typically apply to everyone who has received a college education.

Academic advisors: this property primarily refers to advisors of doctoral candidates, although there may be other, similar types of advisors that could use this property

Academic advisees: this should contain the names of people that an academic (usually a professor) has been an advisor to

Appointments, fellowships, etc. this property should be used for information about any sort academic appointment, such as being a visiting scholar, having a fellowship, having a placement under a research grant, etc., that does not fall under the "employment history" property (which is on the "person" type). For example, a professor's job at a university would usually be entered under "employment history"; however, if that professor receives a grant to do research at another institute for a semester, that posting should be entered under "appointments, fellowships, etc."
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