abstraction, 168, 179

academic

administration, 9

administrators, 271

community, 101

competences, 113

conventions, 172

culture, xv, 75, 81, 91

disciplines, 172

discourse, 42

environment (setting), xii, 14

excellence, 30

freedom, 118, 141

knowledge, 112

level, 157

life, 88

literacy, 176

meritocracy, 82, 93

mobility, 107–118

multiculturalism, 219

populations, xi

presses, 61

qualifications, 80

ranks, 36

sojourners, 61

staff, 116

term, year, 24, 108, 112

texts, 167, 170

traditions, 114

voice, 172

worker, 62

writing, 162, 167, 169–170, 174–176

accent, 11, 21–28, 74–75, 79, 86, 92–95, 97–98, 101–102, 130, 188–189, 274

American, 74

Australian, 82

mainstream, 25, 15

reduction or eradication of, 24

South African, 82

acculturation, xii–xiv, 5–9, 17, 29–30, 36–38, 43, 269, 272–275

assimilation, 8, 42, 56, 60, 230

melting pot, xiv, 58–60, 63–64

mosaic, xiv, 9, 58–60, 63, 65

Africa, xiii, 15, 28, 32, 56–57, 250, 253, 268–269

African, 56–57, 246, 249

academics, 54

South African, 243

student, 37

African Americans, 57

agent, 194

SME agent (Angola), 252

American, 20–21, 26, 56–58

classroom, xvi

culture, 229

faculty members, 33

higher education, 153

norms, 32

professors, 31

trained-teacher, xvi

Angola, 36–37, 240

Asian, 19, 26, 76, 92, 174, 212–213, 216–222