By midcentury, female seminaries and academies were everywhere, replacing the homelike atmosphere of boarding schools with a more institutional setting.
Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
These academies' main responsibility is overseeing primary and secondary education, but public universities are in some respects also answerable to the academy for their region.
After being reorganized into academic, college-prep academies, the name changed to the present name in 2002 to reflect the change in emphasis and curriculum.
