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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Northern Michigan University | Marquette County

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  • Athletic & Recreation Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.06

    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.

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  • Design Guidelines & Specifications
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.09

    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.

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  • Human Resource Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.11

    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.

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  • Grounds & Landscaping
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.12

    Monthly walk-through the status of consensus documents that set the standard of care for the safety and sustainability of the campus outdoor environment.

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  • Arts & Entertainment Facilities
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.13

     

     

    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.

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  • Transport & Parking
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.17

    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.

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  • Finance
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.18

    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

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  • International Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.19

    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

     

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  • Food Safety Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.20

    Ranchview High School

     

    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.

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  • Mechanical Engineering
    All day
    2019.09.23

     

    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/

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  • Risk Management Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.25

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

    Our monthly review of the ever-expanding constellation of safety and sustainability risk management standards open for public comment; or ahead of prospective comment periods.

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  • Water Management
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.26

    Baylor 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.

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  • Healthcare Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.27

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   Every month we run through public commenting opportunities for consensus documents that set the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises.

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  • Federal & State Regulations
    11:00 -12:00
    2019.09.30

    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.

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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)

 

Quadrivium: Spring

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

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