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Berrien Springs

November 30, 2025
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Michigan West

Settled in the Village of Berrien Springs (Population 2043, including students) Andrews University is the flagship educational institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and is made up of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business Administration, School of Education, School of Health Professions, and the School of Architecture, Art & Design.

The University is named after John Nevins Andrews (1829–1883), the biggest thinker in the 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist Church.  He was also the first sponsored missionary that the Church sent overseas. J.N. Andrews’ example of careful thought and compassionate action in Christian life is something we have taken to heart. Our motto is “Seek Knowledge. Affirm Faith. Change the World.”

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

November 29, 2025
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God and Man at Yale | Willam F. Buckley, Jr 1951

The Conservative Mind | Russell Kirk 1953

 

The ISI is a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov and William F. Buckley Jr. to promote conservative and libertarian ideas on American college campuses. ISI educates students through publications (e.g., Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review), campus lectures, honors programs, and fellowships that emphasize free-market economics, limited government, traditional values, and the Western intellectual tradition.

Independent of political parties, it has influenced generations of conservative leaders, including judges, journalists, and policymakers. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ISI remains active in countering perceived leftist dominance in higher education

“The expansion of higher education has been paid for by the taxpayer,

and the taxpayer has been rewarded with the systematic destruction

of the culture that once justified the expense.”

— Sir Roger Scruton (Culture Counts, 2007)

 

Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal | Mecosta County Michigan

William F. Buckley Jr. and Russell Kirk were the twin pillars of post-war American conservatism, yet with distinct emphases. Kirk, the traditionalist, rooted conservatism in moral order, permanence, prescription, and the “permanent things” of Western civilization—famously outlining it in The Conservative Mind (1953). Buckley, the fusionist, built National Review to unite traditionalists, libertarians, and anti-communists under a practical political banner, emphasizing individual liberty and anti-statism.Though Kirk criticized libertarian excesses and Buckley occasionally chided traditionalist “reaction,” they admired each other deeply. Buckley called Kirk the conservative movement’s “benign patriarch”; Kirk praised Buckley’s role in making conservatism intellectually respectable and politically viable. Their friendship and mutual influence forged the enduring traditionalist-libertarian synthesis of modern American conservatism

Michigan Central

Standard Reference Material

November 27, 2025
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Metrology is the scientific discipline that deals with measurement, including both the theoretical and practical aspects of measurement. It is a broad field that encompasses many different areas, including length, mass, time, temperature, and electrical and optical measurements.  The goal of metrology is to establish a system of measurement that is accurate, reliable, and consistent. This involves the development of standards and calibration methods that enable precise and traceable measurements to be made.

The International System of Units is the most widely used system of units today and is based on a set of seven base units, which are defined in terms of physical constants or other fundamental quantities.  Another important aspect of metrology is the development and use of measurement instruments and techniques. These instruments and techniques must be designed to minimize errors and uncertainties in measurements, and they must be calibrated against recognized standards to ensure accuracy and traceability.

Metrology also involves the development of statistical methods for analyzing and interpreting measurement data. These methods are used to quantify the uncertainty associated with measurement results and to determine the reliability of those results.

National Institute for Standards & Technology

Federal Participation in Consensus Standards

ARCHIVE: UM Welcomes ANSI 2015

Parking Lot Striping Standards

November 26, 2025
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Standard for Parking Structures

November 26, 2025
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Tallinna Ülikool | University of Estonia | Parking place art

 

Parking — the lack of it, the cost of it — has always been a sensitive issue in education communities.  Into the mix add the expansion of electric vehicle charging stations, ride sharing, and micromobility.   Their construction characteristics make them ideal locations for storage enterprises and emergency generators.  NFPA 88A Standard for Parking Structures asserts best practice of a small but important part of it; the construction and protection of, as well as the control of hazards in, open and enclosed parking structures. Things get complicated with other occupancy classes merge with it; especially so when electric vehicle battery fires present another order of magnitude of risk.

The 2023 Edition (recently released) can be read in the link below:

FREE ACCESS: Standard for Parking Structures

Insight into the ideas that are in play can be tracked in the transcripts linked below:

First Draft Meeting Agenda

Second Draft Meeting Agenda

Note the concern for the overlap and space between this title and passages in International Code Council catalog.  We limit our concern for fire safety and more education communities build high rise student accommodation with integral parking structures.   The bibliography is extensive (References Pages 92 – 99):

The 2027 edition of this standard is open for public input until June 4, 2024.  CLICK HERE to get started on your own.

We hold this title on the standing agenda of our Prometheus and Mobility colloquium.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.

 

Issue: [17-235]

Category: Parking & Transportation, Space Planning, Facility Asset Management

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Josh Elvove. Joe DeRosier

Gallery: Electric Vehicle Fire Risk

Campus Surveillance

November 25, 2025
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“Big Brother is watching you.”

“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

“At any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away.”

“Fire at Full Moon” 1933 | Paul Klee

Hard upon conclusion of the fall semester, educational settlements ebb in population as students return to their home fires.

Today we pull together best practice in the systems — the people and the technologies — that sustain campus safety and stability during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays.

Join us at 16:00 UTC with login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Guide to Premises Security

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986:

Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore Maryland

Heat Tracing

Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association A156.25 – 2023 Electrified Locking Systems

Shawnee Mission West High School

Places of Worship

Open Network Video Interface Forum

New York City Public Schools

Sacred Spaces

IEC 62676-1-1: Video surveillance systems for use in security applications

University of the District of Columbia Community College

Watch & Night Operations

ANSI C136 Series – Standards for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment

Columbus City Schools Ohio

 

Campus Outdoor Lighting

Park Point University Campus Security

Strawberry Mansion High School | Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Outdoor Deicing & Snow Melting

Case Study: Center Grove Community School Corporation Security

November 25, 2025
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Standards Indiana § Greenwood

“Center Grove Schools enters the 2022/2023 school year with a new high-tech safety partner — Centegix CrisisAlert — purchased in part with school safety grant money that pairs with their Emergency Operations Center that opened in January 2022.  The CrisisAlert program  puts security at the fingertips of all teachers and staff.

Both systems address what the district learned it had to work on from a school safety assessment back in 2018 – live monitoring and faster response times in an emergency.   Seven-hundred cameras will scan every school in real-time from the district’s Emergency Operations Center. — More”

Center Grove school security at the push of a button

Security 100

Center Grove Community School Corporation

“A Sunny Day in Springville (Lawrence County, Indiana)” | n.d. Will Vawter

 

K-12 School Security

Colloquy (November)

November 24, 2025
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United States Air Force Thanksgiving Airlift

Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about.  We meet once a month like this.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Fall Hours at our State Street Office: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

New Office Location Starting January 2026: 455 East Eisenhower Parkway Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 (A 2 minute walk across State Street from our old office)

Join us for lunch 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday | University of Michigan Business School Executive Dining Room

Until the Business School Dining Room renovation is complete we meet at the UM Golf Course or the Olive Garden next to our new office.

University of Michigan Colleagues; some since 1982


 

Technical Requirements for Weighing & Measuring Devices

November 24, 2025
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How Do You Measure the Percentage of Alcohol in Beer, Wine and Other Beverages?

Why You Need Standards

 

Evensong “Skylark”

November 23, 2025
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