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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com
“The past is never dead.  It’s not even past”
— William Faulkner (‘Requiem for a Nun’ 1951)

George Lundeen Departure, 1978

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  • Begin Summer Recess

    Begin Summer Recess

    All day
    2026.08.05
    Michigan State University: Great Lakes Lighthouses

    Standardization topics will continue to flow but our daily interactive document review and markup sessions will not resume until August 20th.

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  • Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.06

    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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  • Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

    “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.

    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.  Received Pronunciation

    RE: National Debate and Speech Association

    https://youtube.com/shorts/JGyuv9MLxJg?si=Cq2P5TX9N8S7rMHh

     


    We observe National Poetry Month (April) 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://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

  • Health 400 | OB-GYN

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

     

    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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  • Observatories & Planetariums

    Observatories & Planetariums

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    2026.08.21

    https://standardsmichigan.com/planetariums/

  • Summer Covers: Week 8

    Summer Covers: Week 8

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    2026.08.21
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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  • William Wilberforce

    William Wilberforce

    All day
    2026.08.24

    For America Public School District Curriculum Leaders: Understanding the broader history of slavery provides essential context for American history and progress on the 250th anniversary of its founding.

    Slavery was not invented by Europeans.  The White Man ended it. Slavery existed across Africa for centuries before significant European involvement. African societies practiced various forms of servitude: war captives, debtors, criminals, and those from rival groups were enslaved by other Africans. Powerful kingdoms and elites in West and Central Africa raided, traded, and sold people into slavery long before Portuguese contact in the 15th century. African rulers supplied captives to European traders in exchange for goods, as demand for labor in the Americas grew.

    This global practice—seen in ancient Egypt, the Islamic slave trade, the Ottoman Empire, and many non-Western societies—highlights slavery as a near-universal human failing tied to power, war, and economics, not a uniquely “White” sin. Recognizing African agency in the trade counters simplistic blame narratives that ignore complicity and portray one group as perpetual victims.

    The English-speaking peoples led the drive to end the Atlantic slave trade. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery throughout its empire in 1833 via the Slavery Abolition Act, compensating owners but committing resources to enforcement. The Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron intercepted slave ships, freeing tens of thousands at significant cost in lives and treasure. This moral crusade, driven by evangelical Christians, Enlightenment thinkers like Wilberforce, and public opinion, pressured other nations. The U.S. followed, formally banning the trade in 1808 but suffered a Civil War with between what is now “Red States” and what is now, and was then, the Democrat Party.  

    In America, the push to end slavery faced strong resistance from the Democratic Party, which dominated the South and defended the institution. Southern Democrats seceded to preserve slavery, sparking the Civil War. Republicans under Lincoln led the fight to preserve the Union and abolish it via the 13th Amendment. Post-war, Democrats in the South imposed Jim Crow laws and opposed civil rights for decades.

    Why should African Americans internalize this? It fosters agency and resilience over grievance. Slavery’s horrors were real and brutal, but its end—painfully achieved through Anglo-American sacrifice, war (over 600,000 dead), and persistent activism—shows moral progress within Western, English-speaking civilization. This legacy includes the world’s strongest anti-slavery norms today. Understanding the full story combats division, rejects ahistorical myths, and builds unity on shared humanity and hard-won freedoms rather than inherited blame. It equips communities to focus on present opportunities in the freest, most prosperous society yet created.

    If Democrats persist in teaching grievance narratives onto America’s youth through the public school system, they should be prepared for continuation, if not acceleration, of home-schooling and the rise of charter schools that vanquish their hegemony over America’s youth and culture.

    William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England.

     

     

  • Python

    Python

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.24

    Lorem ipsum

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  • United States Consumer Sentiment

    United States Consumer Sentiment

    All day
    2026.08.28

    Release Calendar 2026

    Release Calendar 2025

    Final Results for October 2025

    The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) is released twice a month:

    1. Preliminary Report – Released mid-month (usually the second Friday of the month).
    2. Final Report – Released at the end of the month (usually the fourth Friday of the month).

    Both reports are published at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (ET).

    https://youtu.be/D0xSuqKoByQ?si=-pawPMfA1bnY3-FM

    https://youtu.be/GxbKuek88NQ?si=v249UC4EAG2qJXlh

    https://youtu.be/JkQauI15hlE?si=uAm42E0eGtSCtJPH

  • Summer Covers: Week 9

    Summer Covers: Week 9

    All day
    2026.08.28
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)

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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)

 

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