ALWAYS ON
Iced Americano
Bert Askwith worked his way through college shuttling students to and from Detroit Metropolitan Airport until his graduation in 1931; when two semester tuition cost $300. With no student debt he founded Campus Coach Lines that still provides the same services nationwide. He donated part of his fortune to establish a cafe in the Shapiro Library; which now serves an expanding and bewildering catalog of caffeine-based drinks found in educational settlements worldwide.
“William Tell Overture”
Monday Wake-Up: Anita Renfroe's "I'm the Mom" cover of the "William Tell Overture" With link to Timpanogos High School Choir (Orem County, Utah) of the same.
Health 400 | OB-GYN
Today we break down the stack of regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities. We limit our interest to systems -- water, power, telecommunication and security; for example -- that are unique to campus-configured, city-within-city risk aggregations. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
K-TAG Matrix for Healthcare Facilities
Technical committees of the International Code Council synchronize best practice discovery and promulgation processes with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with the compliance form (CMS 2786R). With links to NFPA 99 (Health Care Facilities) and NFPA 101 (Life Safety Code).
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'
Current Issues & Recent Research
Today at the usual hour we summarize the highlights of events and decisions made at the I&CPS Conference in Lexington, Kentucky last week. We always schedule it the week ahead of Mother's Day; our 62nd year.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".