Adjunct faculty, drawn from outside academia, teach special topics courses in their areas of expertise.
She repeatedly insists on her recovery from her training in "academic high culture" while writing a book that few outside academia will want to read through.
They have to bring people in from outside academia, from government, from industry and from the community.
Working largely outside academia, Sarfatti specializes in the idea that there is a relationship between quantum physics and consciousness.
Certainly most people I know outside academia are shocked that my salary doesn't appear to match my qualification levels if one assumes a monotonic relationship.
He was offered a position at Manchester University in 1957 by Max Newman, on the basis of work he had done while outside academia.
It was, no doubt rightly, assumed tht there wasn't a readership any more outside academia for this kind of thing.
Usually a conference will include keynote speakers (often, scholars of some standing, but sometimes individuals from outside academia).
The book received widespread publicity even outside academia and became a best seller.