“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.” Periodic walk-through of Human Resource best practice catalog 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. Recommended Reading: “The Human Side of Enterprise” 1960 Douglas McGregor University of Chicago Press: Readings in Managerial Psychology 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. Alone is where the magic happens…apparently although I got so bored. This 10 mile run was the first time I’ve ran double digits since October 2021! The last two miles felt dreadful however, it’s done. I’m now going to smash a 🍕 #ukrunchat #training pic.twitter.com/fUP43c5yGi — Lil Morris 🏃♀️ (@BlondeLilmo) February 3, 2024 The first integrated circuit (IC) was invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958. Kilby’s invention laid the foundation for modern microelectronics. He was awarded the patent for the integrated circuit in 1961. His work was independently pursued by Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor, who also developed his own version of the integrated circuit around the same time. Noyce’s design eventually became the basis for the integrated circuits we commonly use today. Jack Kilby was awarded the patent for the integrated circuit on February 6, 1962. Covers of a 1926 American Classic by Billy Rose and Lee David — both successful songwriters and composers in the music industry during the early to mid-20th century. Billy Rose was a renowned Broadway producer, lyricist, and impresario known for his contributions to musical theater. He was involved in producing and writing lyrics for many Broadway shows. Lee David, whose real name was Leonard David Flatau, was a songwriter and composer who collaborated with various musicians and lyricists during his career. Neither had direct affiliations with colleges or universities in their professional lives, their work has been studied and appreciated by scholars and musicians in the context of American popular music and musical theater history. https://youtu.be/qAEFB0zmNG0?si=4mdR3CBV699KweeI https://youtu.be/Bpu0TIXzI1w?si=kfp_IvDZZTUVY0ur https://youtu.be/fkg4W-k3eUA?si=nEb6UpallY8vkKuj New York University (NYU) – Tisch School of the Arts: NYU is located in New York City, making it an ideal location for studying Broadway. Tisch offers a renowned musical theater program with a faculty and curriculum that emphasize the study and performance of musical theater.![]()
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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)

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