“One is dreadfully vulnerable through those one loves.”
– C.P. Snow (The Masters, 1951)
Faith Baptist Bible College | Polk County Iowa
University of Michigan 1855 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. Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory 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. “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 #SmartCampus. Monthly review of safety and sustainability advocacy action among education industry trade associations. https://standardsmichigan.com/trade-associations-for-the-us-education-industry/ Louis entering Kallimarmaron at the 1896 Athens Olympics An overview of public commenting opportunities on proposed standards for sports and recreation equipment and athletic facilities. Send email to bella@standardsmichigan.com for access to the agenda. Trinity College / Toronto Monthly walk-through of code and standards revisions that are incorporated by reference in state and local regulations, into education facility design guidelines and construction contracts. Use the login credentials at the top right of our home page. “The Country School” | Winslow Homer Monthly walk through the status of consensus documents that set the standard of care for interior furnishing specification, installation and maintenance. Famous People Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante Monthly walk-through of consensus products developed for labor markets generally; and units within the education facility industry specifically. For an advance agenda send a request to bella@stanardsmichigan.com. Use the credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in. Monthly walk-through the status of consensus documents that set the standard of care for the safety and sustainability of the campus outdoor environment. Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue; in some cases over 50 percent of nominal (nameplate) revenue. Pure non-medical academic megaprojects (e.g., new classroom/research buildings) tend to be smaller than university-affiliated hospital towers in 2026, with many in the $100–300M range. Healthcare expansions dominate due to population growth and funding priorities. Rankings can vary by exact metric (cost, sq ft, beds). Nearly every month we scan for information about such projects in as many stages as publicly available; with particular interest in public commenting opportunities; coordinated with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets online every other Tuesday. Feel free to join us with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Sketches for Boadacre City project from Frank L. Wright. Monthly walk-through of all proposals for International Code Council consensus documents affecting the safety and sustainability agenda of the US education facility industry. Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory 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. Travels of Marco Polo An update on our collaboration with other like-minded units in the education industry in the US and other nations. 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. ISO, IEC, and ITU October Listings of Work Items Published University of Wisconsin Overview of transportation standards relevant to large research university campuses — from micro-mobility to parking. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email requesting an agenda. This video shows a robot in Liverpool removing an illegally parked Volvo XC60 from a disabled parking spot before delivering the SUV to a nearby tow truck.pic.twitter.com/PkaDAq0if3 — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 12, 2024 A walk through the status of the various consensus documents that set the standard of care for safety and sustainability in performance art and special event facilities. Advance agenda to our subscribers. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com a request for access. Monthly walk through of 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. https://standardsmichigan.com/mechanical-engineering-monthly/ Food Science & Technology / University of California Davis 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. 116th Congress Today we walk-through of consensus, open-source and consortia codes and standards incorporated by reference into federal and state regulations of the education industry; including #StandardsState. Send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. Today will be the final day we cover federal and state regulations together. Starting January 2020 will cover federal and state level regulations separately. See our CALENDAR. Today we provide 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
Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815
Oxford students after exams, 1989. pic.twitter.com/HQbO4r6dUE
— M (@0detobeauty) May 27, 2026
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)
We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.
at a conference where you don’t have to present
— Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) April 4, 2025
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