[JimRed]

Asao B. Inoue is professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, director of university writing and the writing center at the University of Washington Tacoma.

IOW, an academic.

ACADEMIC (ac-a-DEM-ic): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unable or unwilling to create or provide goods or services of value to others, who hides out in a college or university, pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.

[Robert DeLong]

Yes. 8>)