Is Academia Becoming Démodé — or Can It Reinvent Itself?

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Essraa Nawar, Chapman UniversityFollow

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Article

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9-19-2025

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"And yet, in the wider cultural imagination, academia has become, in many ways, démodé. Out of fashion. Out of step. No longer the epicenter of intellectual authority or social innovation that it once was. The challenge before us is whether we allow academia to drift further toward irrelevance, or whether we reinvent it for the generations now walking through our doors."

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This article was originally published in Medium in 2025.

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Nawar, E. (2025, Sep. 19). Is academia becoming démodé — or can it reinvent itself? Medium. https://medium.com/@israam/is-academia-becoming-démodé-or-can-it-reinvent-itself-356e0261498a