Pagemike@standardsmichigan.com, Author at Standards Michigan

“I pledge allegiance to the flag…”

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

1954 — current version, per 4 U.S.C. § 4

Flags

Flagpoles

The University of Michigan

North Quadrangle Courtyard

https://conferences.umich.edu/north-quadrangle/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The Garden Café

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The Quiet Campus

The Day of the Dead (1859) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau -

“The Day of the Dead” 1850 | William-Adolphe Bouguereau

VA National Cemetery Administration Facilities Standards and Criteria

Internment Layout Guide

US Department of the Interior Historic Preservation Laws

ASCE SEI 7-22 Structural Design of Monuments and Columbaria (N.B. Seismic Design)

The Last Quadrangle

Cedar Grove Cemetery — University of Notre Dame

Established in 1843 and transferred to university ownership in the 1970s. The 22-acre cemetery includes All Souls Chapel, mausolea and columbaria. More than 16,000 members of the Notre Dame community and their families rest here.

Official cemetery website | Photograph

University of Virginia Cemetery

Founded in 1828, this university-administered cemetery contains the graves of four UVA presidents, faculty and other university figures. UVA also operates a columbarium with formal eligibility and purchasing rules.

UVA Cemetery and Columbarium | Photograph

Iowa State University Cemetery

Maintained since 1876 and still active. More than 900 graves include six university presidents, faculty, employees, spouses, children and two students. Management rests with the university’s Facilities Planning and Management organization.

Iowa State Cemetery | Photograph

Woodland Cemetery — Clemson University

Established by the trustees in 1924 for faculty, administrators and their families. Clemson Facilities maintains the grounds. The university is also documenting hundreds of previously unmarked graves associated with the plantation and early college.

Clemson cemetery history | Photograph

Old Athens Cemetery — University of Georgia

Dating to approximately 1810, this burial ground was deeded back to the University System of Georgia in 2004. UGA Grounds manages the historic site, which contains approximately 800 burials.

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In the absence of cemetery-specific university standards, federal cemetery design and maintenance criteria provide authoritative technical guidance for siting, access, security, preservation and perpetual care. Their use does not displace applicable state and local requirements, nor does it establish federal jurisdiction over university burial grounds.

“Grief” Anna | Anna Ancher (1859 – 1935)

Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions

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Abiit sed non oblitus

Abiit sed non oblitus | Iowa

Abiit sed non oblitus | Houghton County Michigan

Abiit sed non oblitus | Concordia

Abiit sed non oblitus

Abiit sed non oblitus | Wisconsin

Abiit sed non oblitus | Southern Birmingham College

Sacred Spaces

“We need the sense of the sacred, and the sense that things transcend our grasp.

We need to know that we are dependent on others,

and that the condition of our existence is the existence of others.”

— Sir Roger Scruton

“View of Eton College Chapel” 1834 William Ingalton

Natural Religion

The founding of many education communities is inspired by faith communities. In many of them the place of worship was the very first building. College and university chapels are central places of worship for students, staff and faculty, and provide a space for solitude and reflection. A place for feeling at home in the world.

International Building Code | Section 303.4 Assembly Group A-3

There are several hundred technical standards, or parts of standards, that govern how churches and chapels are made safe and sustainable. Owing to innovations in construction, operation and management methods, those standards move, ever so slightly, on a near-daily basis. They are highly interdependent; confounded by county-level adaptations; and impossible to harmonize by adoption cycle. That movement tracked here as best we can within the limit of our resources and priorities. That’s why it’s best to simply click into our daily colloquia if you have a question or need guidance.

Lights are on in the little Baptist parsonage tonight. pic.twitter.com/RK4W6kjug5

— NYFarmer (@NYFarmer) June 7, 2025

The Bible: Silly Stories or Symbolic Wisdom

Richard Miniter observes that the United States was founded as four distinct religious utopias, each originating from different regions and historical periods in England (and the broader British Isles). These groups, shaped by conflicts like the English Civil War, brought competing visions of society, governance, and faith that continue to influence American culture and politics today.1. New England Puritans (from East Anglia): Strict, communal Calvinists seeking a “city upon a hill” with moral oversight and collective piety.
2. Cavalier culture in Virginia and the South (from southwest England): Hierarchical, Anglican/Royalist tradition emphasizing order, honor, and aristocratic values.
3. Middle States (influenced by the West Midlands): More tolerant, pluralistic Quaker and other nonconformist approaches fostering commerce and individual liberty.
4. Appalachian borderlands (from the English-Scottish border): Scots-Irish Presbyterian folkways stressing independence, martial honor, and anti-authoritarian egalitarianism.These enduring subcultures create ongoing tensions over freedom, authority, and religion in America.

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi.

The 13th century Eucharistic chant of Ave verum corpus was set to music by Mozart in 1791 to be sung especially to celebrate the feast day.

Here I sing it in the historic chapel of Launde Abbey. #History pic.twitter.com/frkUFkPHVj

— Katie Marshall (@KatieHistory) June 11, 2023

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief | Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris

Taylor University | Grant County Indiana

The image criteria of our WordPress theme does not permit many images of college and university chapels to be shown fully-dimensioned on sliders or widget galleries. We reproduce a few of the outsized images here and leave the complexities of financing, designing, building and maintaining of them in a safe and sustainable manner for another day. CLICK HERE for the links to our Sacred Space Standards workspace.

Click on any image for author attribution, photo credit or other information*.

Orchard Lake Schools | Oakland County Michigan

Saint Leo University | Pasco County Florida

In the sun-dappled chapel, all 155 new families were welcomed to the start of their Denstone journey. #ItStartsHere pic.twitter.com/veefqSVBGG

— Head | Denstone College (@DenstoneHead) September 3, 2023

Newman University Chapel Dublin

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:

not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

— C.S. Lewis

Vilnius University

Mount St. Joseph University | Hamilton County Ohio

The “Dark Ages” produced the most divine vessels of light ever built.

Sainte-Chapelle:pic.twitter.com/B2lPLtWEVx

— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) February 12, 2024

Sainte-Chapelle:pic.twitter.com/B2lPLtWEVx

— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) February 12, 2024

Marian University Indianapolis

Wittenberg University

Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem

University of San Diego

Augustana University | Minnehaha County South Dakota

Bucknell University Pennsylvania

Carroll College All Saints Chapel Montana

Marquette University Wisconsin

Saint Louis University Missouri

University of St. Thomas Minnesota

Keuka College New York

جامعة الأزهر (الشريف)

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

University of Chicago

Thomas Aquinas College California

St. Albans School | District of Columbia

Princeton University

Yale University

Harvard University

Piula Theological College Samoa

Universität zu Lübeck

Wycliffe College

Universitat de Barcelona

Hillsdale College

Liberty University

Gordon College

Colorado University Denver

Walla Walla University / Washington

University of the Incarnate Word / San Antonio, Texas

Pepperdine University / California

University of Kentucky

Loyola Marymount University / Los Angeles, California

Lourdes University

Seton Hall University

Durlston Court Prep School Chapel

Colorado University Denver

Luther College at the University of Regina / Saskatchewan, Canada

계명대학교 / Keimyung University Chapel, South Korea

U.S. Coast Guard Memorial Chapel | New London, Connecticut

Saint John’s University | Photo by Paul Middlestaedt

Trinity College / Hartford, Connecticut

Georgetown University Chapel | Washington, D.C.

Kings College Chapel | Auckland, New Zealand

Brigham Young University / Idaho

Newman University Church / Dublin

Our Lady of the Lake University / San Antonio, Texas

Southern Methodist University | Dallas, Texas

St. John’s College Oxford

United States Naval Academy Chapel

Wellington College Chapel

Fitzwilliam College Chapel Cambridge

Sorbonne Université

West Point | US Army Cadet Chapel

Hebrew Union College

Tuskegee University Chapel

The Spring Hill College Chapel | Mobile, Alabama

Boston University

University of Tennessee at Chattangooga

Wake Forest University

Auburn University Chapel

Davis & Elkins College

University of Tulsa

Randolph College Chapel

Sewanee | The University of the South

King’s College Chapel | University of Cambridge

Hope College | Holland, Michigan

Duke University | Durham, North Carolina

Christ’s Chapel | Hillsdale College, Michigan

Basilica of the Sacred Heart | University of Notre Dame | South Bend, Indiana

Three Faith Chapels | Brandeis University

University of Wroclaw | Jesuit College | Wrocław, Poland

Alma College Chapel | Alma, Michigan

Stanford Memorial Church | Palo Alto, California

Universidad Adventista Templo | Buenos Aires, Argentina

St. Thomas of Villanova University Chapel | Villanova, Pennsylvania

St. Paul’s Chapel | Columbia University | New York City

Scotch College Chapel | Melbourne, Australia

Princeton University Chapel

United States Air Force Cadet Chapel | Colorado Springs

Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne | Paris

Memorial Chapel | Glasgow University | Glasgow, Scotland

Alice Millar Chapel | Northwestern University

Bowdoin College Chapel | Brunswick, Maine

Loyola University Chapel | Madonna della Strada Chicago

Heinz Memorial Chapel | University of Pittsburgh

Madonna University Chapel | Livonia, Michigan

Vassar College Chapel | Poughkeepsie, New York

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Chapel | Cambridge, Massachusetts

St. Ignatius Church | University of San Francisco

Church of the Resurrection | Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, Indiana

Baughman Center | University of Florida

Exeter College Chapel | Oxford University

More coming.

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The Rossborough Inn

Built in the early nineteenth century along the road between Washington and Baltimore, Rossborough Inn is the oldest building on the University of Maryland campus. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate troops occupied the grounds, and Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson briefly established his headquarters at the inn in 1864. More than a century and a half later, the war has ended bu t, according to campus legend, not everyone has departed. Visitors report unexplained footsteps, doors opening mysteriously and sightings of **Miss Bettie**, the inn’s Civil War-era manager, wandering the corridors in a yellow gown.

Some guests, it seems, never check out.

Spooky (Terrapin) Tales

All Hallows

Healthy Halloween Snack Spooktacular

WVU Family Nutrition Program

West Virginia

Anatomical Donation

Anatomical donation programs are supported by relatively stable best practice literature that are highly cross-referencing. The organ donation industry grows at a surprising clip and, as such, has its share of sketchy actors.

Our discussion today — at 15:00 UTC– is limited to the safety and sustainability of the support facilities for human cadavers only; with attention to the most recent construction projects.

Images:

Transworld Educare Pune

High Point University

Columbia University

Representative Literature:

University of Michigan

Augusta University

Duke University

Idaho State University

Indiana University

Ohio State University

University of Cambridge