User blog comment:Benihime101/Central 46 is alive?/@comment-1454424-20101020011906/@comment-1393830-20101020013902

Ok yeah, that is different than the U.S. Universities are either public or private. Public means they receive funding from the state and the federal and state governments have say in any actions that they take. Private receives no state funding and operates outside of government control as a privately owned business though the federal government can still interfere due to the commerce clause of the U.S constitution. So it stands to reason that the Academy is like the Australian university you describe