I also work TTU and about finished writing my first book on the academic achievement gap.

I'm actually looking at purchasing some land and building a smaller house for myself and renting out the whole place either in the fall or spring for the next academic year. 

So I want to use that to build a strong academic base which I can apply later with any opportunities I have to network or possibly even shadow.Any book recommendations??

It is just very time-consuming academic jobs, underpaid and overloaded. .

My thoughts are that all this is academic until you actually own a rental.  

Currently, Julian Colvard is an established fitness strategist to the Atlanta University Center and its students, public speaker, and, some would consider, a scholarship specialist, obtaining over twenty-thousand dollars in external scholarship monies while attending Clark Atlanta University (Junior) on both academic and athletic scholarships.

The other house we have rented by the room this past year, was because we came into possession to have it leased for the academic year.

It might be there isn't an answer supported by academic research, but I'm gonna keep looking. 

... so it makes that definition rather academic.

If you are going to learn via academic setting remember to get friends who speak it (there are language schools for people who want to learn English, volunteer there and it's free conversation instruction).