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Civil Rights Act (Voting Rights Act) of 1965
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Carnegie Classifications
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, or simply the Carnegie Classification, is the framework for classifying colleges and universities in the United States. Created in 1970, it is named after and was originally created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, but responsibility for the Carnegie Classification was transferred to Indiana University‘s Center for Postsecondary Research, in 2014.
The framework primarily serves educational and research purposes, where it is often important to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions. The classification includes all accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States that are represented in the National Center for Education Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ®
Lawn & Garden Tools
“Le Parc Moncea” 1848 Gustave Caillebotte
The education industry in the United States is steward to large tranches of land assets; either through the Morrill Land Grant Act or municipal set-asides for public schools. In terms of square footage, the spaces between buildings far exceeds the square footage of the built environment — and the locus of public interest and environmental regulation. All of that square footage — usually measured in hundreds and thousands of hectares and acres — requires consideration of the competing interests of many stakeholders.
We display the accomplishments of employees devoted to the landscaping and gardening of educational organizations in a dedicated post:
Landscape and garden assets have their own set of construction and maintenance tools, many of which are continually improved by global equipment manufacturers, and fall within the scope of Subcommittee 13 under parent Technical Committee 23 Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry administered by the Association Française de Normalisation; the French national member body to the International Organization for Standardization.
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The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) is ANSI’s US Technical Advisory Group administrator and the Global Secretariat for ISO TC/23/SC 13. The work program for Subcommittee 13 is linked below:
ISO/TC 23/SC 13 / Powered lawn and garden equipment
Note product standards cover many equipment classes and accessories for engine powered lawn movers, snow blowers, gardening machinery and the like.
ANSI encourages relevant stakeholders to participate in discovering standardization solutions in a broad range of technologies and markets with like-minded experts in other national standards bodies. The full sweep of ANSI’s participation in consensus documents developed by the ISO is described in the link below:
We encourage our colleagues in exterior grounds and landscaping units in the education facility industry to participate directly as a User interest in the OPEI standards development process. OPEI Standards Staff Contacts are listed on the OPEI Standards home page linked below:
Product Safety Standards Listing
We review the developmental status of consensus products that set the standard of care for equipment used to maintain pathways, lawns and gardens in education communities. Automation of the maintenance of these spaces is gathering pace; reducing cost and risk. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [18-155]
Category: Facility Asset Management, Grounds and Landscaping, International
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
Emerging Transportation Technology
“Little Children on a Bicycle” mural on Armenian Street, George Town, Penang by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic as part of the George Town Festival 2012
The school bus system is the largest mass transportation system in the United States*
and has eluded the “gales of creative destruction”** found in other industries.
In April the US Department of Transportation (DOT) created the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council to identify and resolve jurisdictional and regulatory gaps associated with non-traditional and emerging transportation projects pending before DOT, including with respect to safety oversight, environmental review, and funding issues. The Office of the Secretary of Transportation invites comments on projects, issues, or topics that DOT should consider through the NETT Council, including regulatory models and other alternative approaches for non-traditional and emerging transportation technologies.
The Federal Register Notice is linked below:
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION / Office of the Secretary / Docket No. DOT–OST–2019–0165
Comments directly to the DOT are due January 10, 2020.
Apart from inter- and intra- campus travel issues, there are three reasons for Standards Michigan interest in the DOT inquiry:
- According to DOT statistics the American school bus system is the largest public transportation operation in the United States; with nearly 500,000 vehicles moving 26 million children to school every day.
- A great deal of federal funding is allocated to transportation research.
- Academic programs in engineering and urban planning must include an understanding of public and private transportation issues.
For the education facility industry, Standards Michigan prefers privately developed consensus products; preferably by accredited or open-source standard developers with robust outreach toward the user-interest. The American National Standards Institute — the not-for-profit organization that supports the voluntary standards and conformity assessment system — is planning to develop a response to the Request for Information, and strongly encourages its members and constituents to either respond directly to the RFI or to contribute to the ANSI’s response.
Contributions to ANSI’s response are due December 20th.
We place this commenting opportunity on the agenda of our monthly Transportation & Parking teleconference. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Campuses are “cities-within-cities” and perfect study units for cities of the future
Issue: [19-152]
Category: Transportation & Parking
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Paul Green. Richard Robben
* America’s Largest Transit System
** Joseph Schumpeter: Schöpferische Zerstörung
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Filles du Roi
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