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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Michigan West

Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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July 13 - July 19
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  • 13
    13.July.Sunday

    Clare College "...American Choral"

    All day
    2025.07.13

    https://youtu.be/dsVWEgybEy4

    https://twitter.com/natalie_kovarik/status/1675293429285224449?s=20

  • 14
    14.July.Monday

    Bastille Day

    All day
    2025.07.14


    Intellectual Property

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.14

    Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators

    Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Student Art

    Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum.  Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.

    From the Wikipedia

    In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.

    Related:

    Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

     

  • 15
    15.July.Tuesday

    Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.15

    Middle Georgia State University

    One hour overview of NEMA, SAE, IEEE, NFPA, UL and ICC public input and comment on safety and sustainability standards for electric vehicle charging stations.  As usual, our focus is on marking up consensus documents, signing them and submitting them to the appropriate technical committee so that you may receive a formal response.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/ibc-education-facility-assembly-spaces/

  • 16
    16.July.Wednesday

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.16

    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.

    Let your memory be your travel bag.”

    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”)

    Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations.  We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization 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 International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iec-2021/

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/

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  • 17
    17.July.Thursday
    No events
  • 18
    18.July.Friday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    "Friday, I'm in Love" LSU Laboratory School

    All day
    2025.07.18

    Home | Baton Rouge Louisiana


    Bucolia 400

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.07.18

    “A Song of Springtime” 1913 John William Waterhouse

    Review of development in safety and sustainability best practice catalogs for education community outdoor environment.

  • 19
    19.July.Saturday

"In this life you have to perfect one human relationship in order to really know God" -- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) Its almost over, let's enjoy it properly

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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: Summer

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

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