academia, 180, 182, 189, 252, 259

academic

accountability, 247

authority, 113, 139, 249

autonomy, 35, 102, 120, 132, 138–140, 221, 243–247, 251, 257, 270

capitalism, 5, 162, 180, 265

community, 15, 19, 133, 239, 245–246, 265–266, 276, 280

creativity, 181, 279

democracy, 140, 178, 258–260, 264–68, 277–279

enterprise, 15, 139, 183

identity, 133, 180, 241, 248, 251

leaders, 233, 277

politics, 239

radicalism, 210

reform, 60, 268

self-regulation, 198, 245

tourism, 54

tribes, 115

values, 223, 244–245

academics, 5, 7, 13, 15, 90, 114, 133–134, 150, 172, 196, 210, 213, 218, 266, 277

American, 6, 10, 20, 76, 84–86, 109, 120–121, 141, 155, 167, 176, 180, 188, 192, 200, 219–220, 222–223, 233–234, 239–255, 257, 276, 284

Anglo-Saxon, 8, 55, 219

Aristotle, 43–46, 72–74 118

Asia

greater, 158

Asia (continued)

minor, 36

and the Pacific, 144, 151

region and regionalism, 56, 107, 143–158, 166, 176, 178

Southeast, 39, 92, 149, 152, 158

Asian Development Bank, 174

Augustine of Hippo, 45–46

Australian Research Council (ARC), 196

Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), 200

Australian Vice Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), 32, 166, 185, 210

Bacon, Francis, 21, 73

Bayh-Dole Act, 235

Benedictines, 45, 50

Carolingian, Empire, 47

estates of, 55

Catholics, 52–53, 60

chaos theory, 93–94

Charles the Great or ‘Charlemagne’, 46

Chinese Communist Party, 161

Cicero, 44, 50

civil society

and globalism, 249, 252–253, 263, 263, 267

and higher learning, 4, 16, 18, 20, 78, 83, 106, 138, 267

and master of technology, 104