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French birth rate 2025: 1.56 (new low) | French higher education sector has grown 17% (since 2022)
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"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." -- G.K. Chesterton (The Common Man, 1950)
Boston College | Chestnut Hill Massachusetts 617
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Late Night Breakfast
Another "tradition" at many colleges and universities, especially during final exam periods or other high-stress times of the academic year. It typically involves the school's dining services offering a free or heavily discounted breakfast meal late at night, often around midnight or later. It's not just about the food; it's also about the camaraderie and sense of community that comes from gathering together with peers during a a stressful time.
ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΕΣ
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." —Albert Einstein. Today online, at the usual hour, we refresh our understanding of the literature that informs how libraries are conceived, financed, designed, built and maintained. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Standards April: Libraries
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." - Andrew Carnegie
Wren Library
Christopher Wren was a designer, astronomer, geometrician, and the greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St. Paul’s Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–82), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal. He was knighted in 1673.
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.
Coffee Shop in the Library
...'Nestled at the entrance of Tel Aviv University's Brender-Moss Library for Social Sciences, Management, and Education, a coffee cart—welcomes students and faculty with its setup on the entrance floor and adjacent plaza. Under wide umbrellas, patrons sip aromatic hot coffees, iced lattes, or refreshing cold drinks while munching on fresh baked goods, sandwiches and snacks. Seating spills into designated library nooks, blending caffeine-fueled focus with outdoor breezes...'
Cultural Resource Properties
Education communities are stewards of cultural assets that are, by definition, priceless; and whose safety features are cut from a "fabric" of about twenty best practice catalogs. Fire safety is a top-most risk to manage and one with heartbreaking results when it fails; as in Paris on April 15, 2019. The 2025 release of NFPA 909 is the current edition. Public input on the 2029 edition will be received until January 6, 2027.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We met both deadlines for the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code and the NFPA National Electrical Code. We are now in the process of getting ready for our on-site May 4th meeting in Lexington. Kentucky.
Historic Buildings
Proposals for changes to the 2022 International Existing Building Code -- part of the Group B tranche of titles in the ICC catalog -- will heard in Cleveland, October 22-30. Links to redlines provided here.