Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin
BSR/NSF 14-201x (i97r3), Plastics Piping System Components and Related Materials (revision of ANSI/NSF 14-2017). This Standard establishes minimum physical, performance, and health effects requirements for plastic piping system components and related materials. These criteria were established for the protection of public health and the environment. Click here to view these changes in full: ANSI Standards Action | PDF Pages 32-33 Send comments (with copy to psa@ansi.org) to: Jason Snider, (734) 418-6660, jsnider@nsf.org University of New Mexico https://standardsmichigan.com/awi-architectural-woodwork-institute-new-standard-bsr-awi-0620-201x-finish-carpentry-installation-new-standard/ Ashland Community Technical College https://standardsmichigan.com/bicsi-d043b-installation-practices-for-ict-cabling/ Rice University Status check on the rapidly expanding constellation of consensus and open source standards that will guide safety and sustainability regulations for the emergent #SmartCampus. Of the 250-odd ANSI accredited standards developers we count about 50 of them active in capturing some aspect of the Internet of Things transformation. There are even more open source standards developers in this space. As is our custom, we will focus on public commenting opportunities that consensus and open source standards developers; scheduling breakout work sessions with user-interest subject matter experts as necessary. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ University of Michigan Status check on the stream of technical and business consensus and legislative documents that set the standard of care in university-affiliated medical research and clinical delivery enterprises. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ Open to the public: Review and continuing online editing of the IEEE Standards Association Campus Outdoor Lighting Standard and also a review of NCAA and IES Athletic Facility Lighting Guidelines. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ Olivet College Status check on athletic and recreation standards action relevant to the education industry https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/
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Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815
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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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