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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Online meeting for education facility managers to review of pipeline of fire safety proposals in US and international standards. We will also walk through the expanding constellation of school security standards. East Mississippi Community College https://standardsmichigan.com/uniform-mechanical-code/ Overview of 2018 accomplishments. Goals and strategy for 2019. For an advance agenda send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com Patriot’s Day | Boston Marathon 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. Happy Patriots’ Day, America! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/3NqWX1lfSG — US Department of the Interior (@Interior) April 20, 2026 “Nighthawks” | Edward Hopper NEMA (ASC C136) (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) BSR C136.42-201x, Standard for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment – SSL Cobra Head Retrofit Mechanical and Electrical Interchangeability (new standard) This standard defines the mechanical and electrical requirements for transforming installed HID streetlights to Solid State streetlights. Single copy price: $30.00 “The Doctor” | Sir Luke Fildes (1891) Monthly walk-through the developmental status of all regulations, codes, standards and other consensus documents relevant to university-affiliated healthcare facilities “U.S. Army Teaches a Trade (G.I. Telegrapher)” | Norman Rockwell (1919) Monthly walk through of information and communications technology regulations, codes and standards that affect safety and sustainability of the emergent #SmartCampus. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. For an advance agenda, send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com Duke University Proposal development for ICC Group B Codes. Facility management data to inform proposals is gratefully received. You are welcomed to submit proposals on your own by CLICKING HERE. Alverno College ICC Group B Codes Development Schedule Note that the 1-Page Development Schedule linked above has been superseded with information that the Group B deadline for code change proposals has been extended to January 14, 2019 https://www.iccsafe.org/codes-tech-support/codes/code-development/current-code-development-cycle/ Ohio Technical College Monthly walk through redlines of consensus standards open for public comment and proposal preparation. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our homepage. For an advance agenda send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email. Howard Community College Monthly harvest of public commenting opportunities on consensus documents that regulate all dimensions of safety in education facilities and campuses. Radboud University Monthly walk-through of water management codes and standards that affect the safety and sustainability of education facilities. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. University of St. Andrews An update on our collaboration with other like-minded units in the education industry. In most cases we conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union — particularly in The United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Italy — who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the ISO, IEC and the ITU, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. Illinois Technological University Overview of codes and standards action relevant to athletic and recreation enterprises in the education industry. Use login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Send a request for an advance agenda to bella@standardsmichigan.com https://twitter.com/isostandards/status/1080833811053715456 University of California Food Science https://standardsmichigan.com/ashrae-189-draft/ Florida Atlantic University https://www.bicsi.org/conferences-and-events/bicsi-events/conferences-exhibitions/2019-winter Monthly overview of code, standard and/or regulatory advocacy education industry trade associations. For an advance agenda, please email bella@standardsmichigan.com for access. https://standardsmichigan.com/trade-associations-for-the-us-education-industry/ Ranchview High School Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in student housing and university-affiliated healthcare systems. “Sunrise, Northport Harbor” | Arthur Dove (1929) | Princeton University Art Museum An overview of the titles, scopes, revision cycles and public commenting opportunities on leading practice documents presented by accredited consensus standards developers, trade associations and government agencies involved in the finance of the US education industry. Use the login credentials at the top right of our home page. For an draft agenda, send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com Online meeting for education facility managers to review of pipeline of fire safety proposals in US and international standards. We will also walk through the expanding constellation of school security standards. For an advance agenda, send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com. Vancouver Film Score Monthly walk-through of the 10-15 codes and standards, and parts of codes and standards, that apply to these facility classes. Advance agenda to our subscribers. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com for a request to access. We recognize our colleagues in Australia on their national holiday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Australia https://youtu.be/Ja-53_GWpyg Emory University BSR/ASHRAE Addendum br to BSR/ASHRAE Standard 135-201x, BACnet – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks (addenda to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2016) This addendum adds new engineering units, a new mandate to accept writes of NULL to non-commandable properties, and intrinsic fault reporting to Lighting Output object type; deprecates Time form of timestamps; clarifies the Multi-state object types when Number_Of_States shrinks; fixes the language for event type and message text parameters of event notifications; clarifies the object instance 4194303; extends the ReadPropertyMultiple service to support the Network Port wildcard instance treatment; and clarifies the timestamp of trend log and trend log multiple log records. Click here to view these changes in full: Page 33+ Send comments (with copy to psa@ansi.org) to: http://www.ashrae.org/standards-research–technology/public-review-drafts Online meeting for education facility managers to review of pipeline of fire safety proposals in US and international standards. We will also walk through the expanding constellation of school security standards. University of California Merced Power Plant https://standardsmichigan.com/neca-417-designing-installing-operating-and-maintaining-microgrids/ University of California Merced Power Plant https://standardsmichigan.com/neca-417-designing-installing-operating-and-maintaining-microgrids/ University of California Merced Power Plant Monthly walk-through of public commenting opportunities on electrical power, telecommunication, information and communication technology standards. Coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 15:00 Central European time and 3:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas. “The Country School” | Winslow Homer We harvest data and walk through public-commenting opportunities available in codes, standards, recommended practices and other consensus documents developed by the ISO, ICC, ASTM, ASHRAE, NFPA, IFMA BOMA, APPA and other accredited standards developers that set the standard of care for education and university-affiliated healthcare facilities. Click on image for more information about the 116th United States Congress Monthly walk-through of consensus, open-source and consortia codes and standards incorporated by reference into federal and state regulations of the education industry. Send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.
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