“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.”
— William Butler Yeats
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals serve as a call to action for all countries of the world to promote health, safety, and prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs, and they call upon the creativity, know-how, technology, and resources from all of society to achieve them.
This is list of 17 goals to transform our world:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being
GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
To highlight the power of standards as a tool in these efforts, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 2020 Student Paper Competition asks you to choose one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and explore the ways in which standards play a role in achieving it, or could in the future. Your paper should identify a relevant standard or multiple standards and discuss how they can contribute to strategies and solutions for reaching the targets set out in one of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Here are the guidelines:
Be written and submitted by student(s) (associate, undergraduate, or graduate, in any discipline) enrolled full- or part-time during the period of September 2019 to April 2020 at an institute of higher education located in the United States or its territories
Include a title and a list of names of all contributing authors, their contact details, and the affiliated institute of higher education
Be prefaced with an abstract of no more than 400 words
Be less than 2,000 words (not including requirements #2 and #3 above, notes, tables, charts, and a bibliography which may not exceed 3 pages)
Be in English and suitable for publication ( nal editing assistance will be provided before publication of winning papers)
Be submitted in electronic format, preferably Microsoft Word or other revisable format, in 12-point type size
Be original and not previously published (copyright will remain with the author; winners grant publication rights to ANSI, as well as the right to release entries to other media)
More detail is available in the link below:
ANSI Student Paper Competition 2020 – Papers Due 31 May 2020*
Standards Michigan will host four 11 AM/ET Saturday workshop in 2020 for anyone interested in guidance within the limits of our expertise. (See our ABOUT).
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Students and faculty sponsoring students are welcomed to click in. Standards Michigan is a member of the ANSI Committee on Education and collaborates closely with two University of Michigan faculty familiar with the competition. See our CALENDAR for login credentials.
*On March 23rd, the ANSI Committee on Education moved the deadline back a month, owing to global pandemic circumstances.
LEARN MORE:
ANSI COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OPERATING GUIDELINES
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Open for Comment
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Our algorithm slices horizontally through an expanding universe of best practice literature (consensus products) of 1000-odd private sector standard setting organizations every day. These 1000-odd developers throw off the better part of 10,000 consensus products relevant to the safety and sustainability agenda of education communities. These products compete with national, state and local legislative proposals — many which are drafted by lobbying organizations , communication consultants, congressional staffers, elected representatives and student interns.
The standards-setting space may be characterized by ferocious competition among partisans of “top-down” regulations, free-booting innovators aligned with consortia and open-source platforms and the public private partnerships contemplated in the United States Standards System. Innovators in every nation know, instinctively, that in order for their innovation to succeed, they need market acceptance. Most developed nations have public statutes that recognize the primary efficacy of private standards setting organizations in leading practice discovery and promulgation. See our coverage of the National Technology Transfer & Advancement Act.
A small sample of the action of ANSI-accredited standards setting organizations can be viewed the weekly update of ANSI Standards Action. Most consortia have open-ended commenting periods so we respond to them on the topics that are scheduled on our CALENDAR.
Wednesday | May 27, 2020
We are not lobbyists but we follow legislation that is sometimes written by lobbyists retained by incumbent niche verticals we identify throughout the Standards Michigan platform. You may directly access draft federal legislation at this link:
https://www.congress.gov/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
https://www.regulations.gov/
There are also hundreds of education industry non-profit organizations with enterprises active in federal-level statecraft.
We curate the stream of Congressional proposals and Executive actions that may affect the cost of education community settings but go no further. A great deal of that cost structure involves technologies and practices that are “stable” (such as labor laws) or outside the wheelhouse of privately developed consensus products where our tenure in the United States Standards System resides.
Thursday | May 28, 2020
Friday | May 29, 2020
Saturday | May 30, 2020
Sunday | May 31, 2020
*Not all public commenting opportunities relevant to the safety and sustainability agenda of the education facility industry appear in “ANSI Standards Action”. Many best practice standards reside in consortia and open-source platforms; particularly ICT and IoT standards. In many economic spaces, privately-developed consensus products compete with local, state and federal legislative proposals.