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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date" William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)
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"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay." -- J.R. R. Tolkein
Human Resources 100
We seek to understand people in the round. In academia, especially, every footfall risks a landmine. We keep things simple today by examining (1) the latest data points from the US Department of Labor Statistics, (2) a "representative" university organization chart, (3) open public consultations on relevant standards catalogs for skilled trade training in all building construction disciplines.
How to teach standards to students
BSI Knowledge Academic is a valuable research tool for your students, researchers, faculty, and staff. Providing instant access to over 100,000 internationally recognized standards, it helps research programs and academic institutions to enhance their reputation and prepare students for a successful future.
Engineering a Fair Future: Why we need to train unbiased AI
Machine (data-driven learning-based algorithmic) decision making is increasingly being used to assist or replace human decision making in a variety of domains ranging from banking and recruiting to judiciary and journalism. Recently concerns have been raised about the potential for bias and unfairness in such algorithmic decisions. I
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Certifying the Certifiers
Clients of ANSI’s Accreditation Program describe their experiences with ANSI accreditation for personnel certification bodies.
Abiit sed non oblitus | James Earl Jones
Born in Tate County Mississippi. His family moved to Manistee County Michigan during the Great Northward Migration of 1910-1970 and where he began his career in the dramatic arts as a stage carpenter at the Ramsdell Theater.
Current Issues and Recent Research
We look ahead to the IAS General Conference in Phoenix in October We are ramping up the reliability utility distribution data collection project for the planned revision of IEEE 493 Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems. Second Draft Meetings on the 2026 National Electrical Code will be hosted in Redondo Beach, California during the same week.
Materiality of Human Capital Metrics
Since the advent of scientific management in the late 19th century, investors have remained unpersuaded if not dismissive of human capital measures when determining the cumulative financial value of publicly traded companies. This reluctance stems from a perceived arbitrariness and empirical uncertainty that has attached to the measurement of workforce contributions to organizational value.