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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Southwest Christian High School | Carver County Minnesota

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  • Food Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.05

    University of California Food Science Kitchen

    Overview of commercial kitchen, food safety and food preparation standards.

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  • Health Care Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.06

    Monthly overview of available public commenting opportunities relevant to university-affiliated medical research facilities and clinical delivery enterprises.

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  • International Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.08

    International Electrotechnical Commission – Central Office – Geneva

    Monthly overview of public commenting opportunities on standards relevant to the education industry

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  • Electrotechnology Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.12

    Penn State University Telecommunications Building

    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.

  • ICT Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.12

    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

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  • Water Management
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.13

    Florence-Darlington Technical College

    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.

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  • Risk Management Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.21

    “The Great Fire of London” | Artist Unknown (4 September 1666)

    Monthly review of the ever-expanding constellation of risk management standards open for public comment; or ahead of prospective comment periods.

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  • Arts & Entertainment Facilities
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.22

    American University United Arab Emirates

    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.

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  • Fire Protection & Security
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.26

    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.

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  • Federal & State Regulations
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.02.27

    Click on image for more information on the 116th 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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March

The academic calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family life, specifically.  Its rhythm is rooted in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe between the 1100s and 1400s. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

The classic English university calendar 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: Spring

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

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