ALWAYS ON
“GV Brew”
As true in Western Michigan as anywhere else: You can bring the students to the coffee; or the coffee to the students. Located in the Mary Idema Pew Library.
Gallery: School Bond Referenda
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Tyme
Today at 16:00 UTC we refresh our understanding of the technical standards for the timing-systems that maintain the temporal framework for daily life in education communities. The campus clock continues as a monument of beauty and structure even though digitization of everything has rendered the central community clock redundant.
Language 600
AI does not merely follow language standards through widespread daily use: it helps create them We explore English as a common carrier for technical language in review our response to the NIST Call for Letters of Interest in its Plan for Global Engagement on AI Standards.
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.
S. 542: English Language Unity Act of 2025
Should Large Language Models Speak Standard English? Who is writing the English that AI will learn?
All Hallows
The measure of a beautiful campus is not only how it welcomes the living, but how faithfully it remembers those who came before and prepares a home for those yet to come.
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.
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".