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Brasenose College Cold Brew
Oxbridge Universities remain in their summer register until October 1. A familiar "university-adjacent" business model in European educational settlements: Jericho Coffee Traders operates no cafés within the colleges of the University of Oxford. Its flagship High Street Espresso Bar at 105 High Street, OX1 4BW, stands beside the University Church and opposite the College—woven into the rising life and enduring traditions of the University.
Schenkingen
The world's most efficient business model: "Give me your money". Today at the usual hour we scan ad hoc guidelines, standards and regulations covering charitable giving and receiving (receiving, say, a herd of buffalo). We title these sessions with the Dutch mnemonic for the same which--phonetically--sounds like the English word "shakedown".
Naming & Signs
Most educational settlements are not overloaded by signage by design but distracted management (overlapping temporary signs, inconsistent styles) or large footprints supports the perception. Today at the usual hour we explore the literature covering exterior and interior signage with emphases on coherence and necessity.
Board Meeting
September 23, 2026 meeting on insurance. With link to Accounting Standards for Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC.
$3 Billion Carnegie Mellon University Miami
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Wolverine Village
None of these four distinguished Michigan graduates have a University of Michigan campus building bearing his name: Thomas Weller (Nobel Laureate), Frank Murphy (US Supreme Court Justice). Kelly Johnson (Aeronautical Engineer of World War II aircraft), Claude Shannon (Pioneer of Superintelligence now transforming the world)
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
NGO, QUANGO or Something Else: How Harvard and Other Colleges Manage Their Endowments
Hedge funds with a side hustle in sports, research, and memorial garden construction? As of fiscal year 2023, the market value of just the top twenty endowment funds of colleges and universities was $424 billion; recovering from the significant losses of 2022. This is roughly the same domestic product of Denmark. Blackrock -- the world's largest asset manager -- has market capitalization of $103 billion.