ALWAYS ON
Early Breakfast
Before the first 8 AM lecture begins, while the crew team puts its oars in the water and new life unfolds at University Hospital, the campus comes alive with gardeners, electricians, road crews builders beginning another summer day before it gets too hot.
Bucolia 300
(OED adj. pl.) "pastoral, relating to country life or the affairs and occupations of a shepherd," 1610s, earlier bucolical (1520s), from Latin bucolicus, from Greek boukolikos "pastoral, rustic," from boukolos "cowherd, herdsman," from bous "cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow") + -kolos "tending," related to Latin colere "to till (the ground), cultivate, dwell, inhabit" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell").
Quadrivium: Summer
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. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
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.
Playgrounds
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." -- - Plato (The Republic, Book III,~380 BCE)
Architect students building a playground
Architect students build a playground in the suburb Bergsjön in Gothenburg. The playground design and building process is part of an architecture Master’s degree,
Gallery: Playgrounds
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” -- G.K. Chesterton
Monograph: The Case for Campus Housing
July 2021: This research is ACUHO's largest single financial investment in research on behalf of the profession. The inaugural grant was awarded to the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University Bloomington to collect student housing data through the National Survey of Student Engagement. The data are from a representative sample of 33,000 first-year and sophomore students enrolled at 76 diverse residential institutions.