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  • Michaelmas

    Michaelmas

    05:02
    2026.10.01

    Oxford University — Academic Life: Understanding Oxford’s academic traditions

    University of Cambridge – Term Dates

     

    St. Michael and the Dragon, c.1460 - c.1470 - Antonio del Pollaiolo ...

    Michaelmas, observed on September 29, is the traditional Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. In the old English calendar it was also one of the four quarter days, when rents, accounts and other obligations were settled and the turning of the season formally marked. Falling near the autumnal equinox and the end of harvest, Michaelmas became associated with the beginning of autumn work and institutional life. Its name survives conspicuously in the Anglosphere’s educational tradition: Oxford and Cambridge still call the opening term of the academic year Michaelmas Term, preserving an ancient connection among faith, season, learning and the calendar.

  • Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.01

    Are you Overbuilding?

    “Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

    We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

     

    https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4

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  • IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Vancouver

    IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Vancouver

    All day
    2026.10.05

    IEEE IAS Annual Meeting

  • Family Housing

    Family Housing

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.05

    Today we review accommodations education settlements provide for students starting a family in high school and in college.

    best PTG

    “One of the Family” 1880 | Frederick George Cotman

    • MIT — graduate student family. MIT has just profiled a graduate-student family and the community they found among other student parents. MIT News
    • MIT — actual infrastructure for student families. Three on-campus family-housing options, backup childcare and childbirth/parental accommodations. Useful factual companion to #3 rather than merely university atmospherics. Office of Graduate Education
    • UC Davis — Student Parent Space. A new dedicated Student Parent Space is open, with fall programming beginning now and links to housing, childcare and resources for expecting/new parents. Another unusually direct Domestic University item. Student Parent Resources
    • UMass Amherst — family housing. Fall 2026 applications are open for students with children, spouses, partners or dependent relatives; notably, the page currently identifies October 1 as the beginning of its move-in window.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/housing/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-move-in/

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  • Prometheus 300

    Prometheus 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.08

    2024 International Fire Code

    2024 Fire Code

    “Prometheus creating Man in the presence of Athena” (1802) / Jean-Simon Berthélemy

    Aperiodic nthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in educational settlements.   We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise.  Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda.

  • Laboratories

    Laboratories

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.08

    “Der Alchemist” 1908 / Max Fuhrmann

     

    Status check on standards action that guide laboratory safety and sustainability in all building disciplines.    There are about ten standards developers in this space and they do not all move in a coordinated manner among themselves; much less from state-to-state.  Anyone is welcomed to join this teleconference with the login information below.  For an agenda, please join our mailing list.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-laboratories/

    https://youtu.be/zHAl1PHcQyU?si=LYF8wOYY9Lvqx_o1

    Biosafety Cabinetry NSF International

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  • Columbus Day

    Columbus Day

    All day
    2026.10.12

    https://standardsmichigan.com/90-second-lecture-was-christopher-columbus-a-genius-or-was-he-just-lucky/

  • Thanksgiving Canada

    Thanksgiving Canada

    07:38
    2026.10.12

    Thanksgiving Canada

  • Intellectual Property

    Intellectual Property

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.12

    “If you steal from one person that is plagiarism.

    If you steal from many people, that is research”

    Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators

    Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Student Art

    Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum.  Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.

    From the Wikipedia

    In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.

    Related:

    Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

     

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  • Fine Arts 200

    Fine Arts 200

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.16

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    There are written fine arts standards that have been developed by various organizations and educational bodies. These standards provide a framework for what students should know and be able to do in the arts at different grade levels. Here are a few examples of fine arts standards:

    National Core Arts Standards: The National Core Arts Standards were developed by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards and outline what students should know and be able to do in dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts at different grade levels.

    State Fine Arts Standards: Many states have their own fine arts standards that are aligned with the National Core Arts Standards but may be tailored to reflect the unique needs and priorities of the state; e.g., State of Ohio Fine Art Standards

    International Baccalaureate Arts Standards: The International Baccalaureate (IB) program offers arts standards as part of their curriculum framework for the arts. These standards are designed to develop students’ creative and critical thinking skills in the arts.

    Arts Education Partnership National Standards for Arts Education: The Arts Education Partnership has developed national standards for arts education that cover the four major artistic disciplines: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

    Today at 15:00 UTC we drill into the technical specifics that contribute to the safety and sustainability of spaces used for the teaching, practice and

    display of the fine arts.  These occupancies are typically at greater risk than classrooms because they usually contain volatile fluids for artistic painting

    or biologic specimen preservation, kilns for pottery, fabrics and related machinery for teaching fashion design and practice.  

  • Nourriture d’automne

    Nourriture d’automne

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.16

    University of British Columbia: Food grown inside the residence hall. Orchard Commons has begun harvesting greens from a hydroponic Building-Integrated Agriculture pod immediately beside the dining hall. Standard electrical connection, LED lighting, architecture, food service, energy, research and campus operations all converge here.

    Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in K-12 schools, college and university student housing, athletic venues and university-affiliated healthcare systems.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

     

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  • Raisin Monday

    Raisin Monday

    All day
    2026.10.19

    lorem

     

    Raisin Monday is traditionally celebrated at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It typically takes place on the third Monday in November. The event is part of the Raisin Weekend, a long-standing tradition where first-year students (freshers) are “adopted” by older students (academic parents) and engage in various activities and pranks.

     

    tradition is democracy of the dead, chesterton

  • Language 600

    Language 600

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.19

    “He who does not speak foreign languages
    knows nothing about his own.“

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     

    “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder

     

    Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web:

    English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6%

     

    One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding.  As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things.  So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.

    Attention Is All You Need | Ashish Vaswani, et. al

    We begin 2025 by breaking down this topic into four sections

    Language 100: Survey of vocabulary in the standards catalogs relevant to building and managing education settlement real assets; including legal terms.

    Language 200: Electrotechnology standard catalogs; including computer programming languages.

    Language 300: The English as the language of science and innovation; the birthplace of computing and programming, the internet’s native tongue, standardization & open source development; etc.

    Language 400: Reserved


    We observe National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities.

    In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry.

    Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide.

    In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia.  Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English

    https://youtube.com/shorts/iEhbwbUTukE?si=bUQHwT14GbxNL_5b

    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

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  • Roofs

    Roofs

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.22

    The plural of “roof” is “roofs”.This is the standard, correct, and most commonly used plural form in modern English — including in technical, architectural, and educational contexts like school and college buildings.

  • Fenestration

    Fenestration

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.22

    https://standardsmichigan.com/door-n/

    https://twitter.com/ArashFMaleki/status/1538874635701338117?s=20&t=WQRNQqyRGEFSQS76nwQRSg

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  • Anatomical Donation

    Anatomical Donation

    All day
    2026.10.26

  • Health 400 | OB-GYN

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.26

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

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  • Critical Operations

    Critical Operations

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.27

    Critical Operations Power Systems

  • Data Centers

    Data Centers

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.27

    “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian

    Status check on open source consensus products — and practical applications —  evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.

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  • Schenkingen 4Q

    Schenkingen 4Q

    All day
    2026.10.28

    “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man

    standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

    — Paraphrase by Winston Churchill

    University endowments are comprised of money or other financial assets that are donated to academic institutions. Charitable donations are the primary source of funds for endowments. Endowment funds support the teaching, research, and public service missions of colleges and universities.  In the case of endowment funds for academic institutions, the income generated is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution.  Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/schenkingen/

  • Tax Exempt Bonds

    Tax Exempt Bonds

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.28

    “Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers

    Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/

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  • Signs, Signs, Signs

    Signs, Signs, Signs

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.29

     

    Our first impression of a community is its visual environment, which is reflected from the pretty integration of built and natural forms.  College campuses are oases of beauty; or used to be were it not for sign pollution. With increase in education community construction + advances in sign-making technology + growth of the administrative state + hottened litigation environment, signage has become visual “pollution” to many and, to others, a likely permanent pandemic era cultural affinity to be controlled and told what to do.

    The education industry provides a natural home for “hall monitors”; personality types with close relatives in the standards conformance and compliance community.

    International students enrolling in U.S. colleges encounter Academic English — the formal register of lectures, textbooks, papers, and discussions. This variety often embeds assumptions that diverge sharply from the American Founding’s emphasis on limited government, individual liberty, natural rights, and skepticism of centralized authority.

    The Founders designed a republic of enumerated powers, checks and balances, and federalism to restrain government and protect personal sovereignty. They viewed government as a necessary but dangerous servant. Deference was owed primarily to law and reason, not to elites or the state.

    Modern university discourse, however, frequently frames issues through lenses that normalize expansive government. Terms like “equity,” “systemic oppression,” “social justice,” “sustainability,” and “public good” recur in required writing, readings, and class analysis. These presuppose that societal problems demand coordinated state or institutional intervention and expert guidance.

    International students, often writing in a second language, must master not only grammar but also these rhetorical conventions to succeed. Essays commonly reward framing arguments around collective victimhood, institutional reform, or government solutions, while skepticism of authority or defense of limited government can be marked down.

    This creates subtle acculturation. Students absorb a version of English that subtly legitimizes big government as moral progress — contrasting the Founding’s core warning: unchecked power threatens liberty. Proficiency thus includes ideological fluency in progressive norms dominant in humanities and social sciences.

    In short, many international graduates internalize habits of thought prioritizing collective authority and equity over the Founders’ individualism and restraint — shaping future global elites away from the Republic’s original limited-government ethos.

    How many signs are too many signs and how can leading practice discovery and promulgation among accredited standards developers contribute to solutions?  It may well be that there is no other industry on earth than the American education “industry” that is so replete with signage.   After Title, Scope and Purpose, and after Definitions, the topic of signage is found in a surprising number of titles and deserves a dedicated colloquium of its own.

    Join us today when we sweep through the surprisingly large catalog of titles devoted to signage.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/signs-signs-signs/

  • Pathways 100

    Pathways 100

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.29

    Review of best practice literature for the design, construction and maintenance of campus pathways for pedestrians and vehicles within buildings, between them and along the boundary between campus and the “real world”.

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  • Playlist: Monster Mash

    Playlist: Monster Mash

    All day
    2026.10.30

    Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus 1888| Mrs. Shelly. George Routledge and Sons

    https://open.spotify.com/track/0xxZY5C9xxij3D1HkzbnfC?si=0c583cd961504098
    https://youtu.be/_DfW654p5O0?si=QbWTW3tv8dJGMKDg

    https://youtu.be/6_tif-OZpuk

    • “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” (Chapter 8 – Creature)
    • “Learn from me… how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.” (Letter 4 – Walton)
    • “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” (Chapter 17 – Creature)
    • “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “Man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” (Chapter 23 – Victor)
    • “Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition.” (Chapter 24 – Victor)
    • I am malicious because I am miserable.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “All men hate the wretched.” (Chapter 10 – Creature)
    • “You are my creator, but I am your master.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)

    https://youtu.be/fqV5jJ1y5yM?si=Vv-mJOKgvQ0AJCQj

    https://youtu.be/THf1ULU0_cQ

     

    https://youtu.be/vNuVifA7DSU

    https://youtu.be/fqV5jJ1y5yM?si=Vv-mJOKgvQ0AJCQj

     

  • Colloquy (October)

    Colloquy (October)

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.30

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/colloquy-october/

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Standards Michigan | Time

The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically.  Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles.  In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.

Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.

Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.

The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.

Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society.  (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)

 

Quadrivium: Autumn

We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.

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