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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

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  • Civil Rights Act of 1965
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    2025.08.06

    The Civil Rights Act of 1965, also known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, was passed into law on August 6, 1965, and was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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  • Begin Summer Break
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    2025.08.06-2025.08.18

    Summer Break

  • International Standards
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.06

    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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  • “The Big Chill”
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    2025.08.09

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/audio-video-information-technology-and-communication-technology/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-36-cinematography/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/network-facilities-architecture/

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  • “Moonlight in Vermont” SUNY Fredonia
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    2025.08.09

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  • Summer Break
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    2025.08.15

    Summer Break

  • Summer Watersport
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.15

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    https://twitter.com/Vol_SwimDive/status/1687087529214844928?s=20

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  • End Summer Break
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    2025.08.18

    Summer Break

  • Health 400 | OB-GYN
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.18

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    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.

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  • Data Centers
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.19

    “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian

    Status check on open source consensus products — and practical applications —  evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.

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  • Hello World!
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.20

    “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.

    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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  • Nourriture Été
    11:00 -12:00
    2025.08.22

    “Spring Turning” 1936 Grant Wood,

    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.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

     

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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)

 

Quadrivium: Spring

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

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