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CLICK ON IMAGE Overview of the status of best practice catalogs that set the standard of care for the safety and sustainability of the campus outdoor environment. Today at 11 AM/ET we review the consensus products that set the standard of care for prevention, response and resilience of the education facility industry to storms, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and all other disasters. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-disasters/ “The Country School” | Winslow Homer Periodic review of best practice literature that sets the standard of care for interior furnishing specification, installation and maintenance. “Lady Astor playing golf at North Berwick” 2015 John Lavery 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. Philip D. Hawkins | Summer Saturday at Snow Hill https://youtu.be/e20RFBBzcww https://standardsmichigan.com/door-n/ https://twitter.com/ArashFMaleki/status/1538874635701338117?s=20&t=WQRNQqyRGEFSQS76nwQRSg “Prometheus creating Man in the presence of Athena” (1802) / Jean-Simon Berthélemy Monthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in education communities. We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. Today we explain our collaboration with other like-minded units in education communities 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 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. https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-international-standards/ Review of best practice literature for the design, construction and maintenance of campus pathways for pedestrians and vehicles within buildings, between them and along the boundary between campus and the “real world”. “Actors from the Commedia dell’Arte on a Wagon in a Town Square” 1640 Jan Miel A walk through the status of best practice literature that sets the standard of care for safety and sustainability in the education facilities built for the performance arts. Readings: The Seven Lively Arts (1924) Glibert Seldes (Oxford Academic review) Periodic review of the best practice catalogs that set the standard of care for security of education communities. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. Washtenaw Community College Today we refresh understanding of the regulations for Class D campus radio systems. We review best practice for production technologies and FM transmission technologies through airwaves, cabling systems or a combination of both. Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue. We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities. “Blackberry Gathering” 1912 Elizabeth Adela Forbes 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. 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. We inform our discussion based upon today’s release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. 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. Today we run a status check on best practice in electrical power system design, construction, operations and maintenance that support the learning, research and medical clinical delivery enterprises in education communities. Our colloquia on this topic coincide with the two monthly IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 14:00 Central European time and 2:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas. “Prometheus creating Man in the presence of Athena” (1802) / Jean-Simon Berthélemy Monthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in education communities. We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. What a Wonderful World! | Ho Charlotte Sie Wing, 13, China Review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations regarding energy production and conservation relevant to the education facility industry. Faculty and staff in the education industry in all nations provide basic research, application research in energy technologies. The “cities-within-cities” we call the #SmartCampus” also provide crucibles for new testing new technologies as well as provide energy load for utilities operating under all ownership regimes. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. https://standardsmichigan.com/agenda-energy-standards-monthly/ “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby https://youtu.be/CVLtm39w8YU 117th Congress Swearing In Floor Proceedings – January 3, 2021, House Chamber Today we run a status check on ANSI-accredited consensus, open-source and consortia consensus products incorporated by reference into federal regulations of the real assets of the US education industry. Send a request to bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-federal-state-regulations/ “Parable of the Rich Fool” 1627 Rembrandt Today we run a status check on public consultations released by ANSI-accredited and finance industry consortia whose involvement affects the cost of US education communities. Ahead of quarterly county elections we examine a few tax-free bond referenda on ballots across the US for insight into the money flow through education communities.
The academic calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements quietly shapes life of the mind generally and family life specifically. Its origins lie 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)
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