{"id":30021,"date":"2026-09-14T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=30021"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:53:35","slug":"how-does-one-bridge-the-gap-between-academia-and-the-real-world-especially-within-a-social-justice-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/09\/14\/how-does-one-bridge-the-gap-between-academia-and-the-real-world-especially-within-a-social-justice-context\/","title":{"rendered":"How does one bridge the gap between academia and the real world\u2013especially within a social justice context?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW091426-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW091426-1.jpeg\" alt=\"How does one bridge the gap between academia and the real world\u2013especially within a social justice context?\" class=\"wp-image-30016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW091426-1.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AW091426-1-300x279.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How does one bridge the gap between academia and the real world\u2013especially within a social justice context?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first reaction is that academia IS the real world and that anyone saying it isn&#8217;t has likely not paid their rent with tips, or not recently enough that they remember it clearly. But I will say that communicating the implications of scholarly research for policymakers and our communities is hard, and it isn&#8217;t work that either higher education or the broader economy values for its own sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first reaction is that academia IS the real world and that anyone saying it isn&#8217;t has likely not paid their rent with tips, or not recently enough that they remember it clearly. But I will say that communicating the implications of scholarly research for policymakers and our communities is hard, and it isn&#8217;t work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/09\/14\/how-does-one-bridge-the-gap-between-academia-and-the-real-world-especially-within-a-social-justice-context\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does one bridge the gap between academia and the real world\u2013especially within a social justice context?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30034,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30021\/revisions\/30034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}