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  • Michaelmas

    Michaelmas

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    2026.10.01

    Oxford University — Academic Life: Understanding Oxford’s academic traditions

    University of Cambridge – Term Dates

     

    St. Michael and the Dragon, c.1460 - c.1470 - Antonio del Pollaiolo ...

    Michaelmas, observed on September 29, is the traditional Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. In the old English calendar it was also one of the four quarter days, when rents, accounts and other obligations were settled and the turning of the season formally marked. Falling near the autumnal equinox and the end of harvest, Michaelmas became associated with the beginning of autumn work and institutional life. Its name survives conspicuously in the Anglosphere’s educational tradition: Oxford and Cambridge still call the opening term of the academic year Michaelmas Term, preserving an ancient connection among faith, season, learning and the calendar.

  • Ædificare | Renovation Standards

    Ædificare | Renovation Standards

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    2026.10.01

    Are you Overbuilding?

    “Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

    We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

     

    https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4

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  • IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Vancouver

    IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Vancouver

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    2026.10.05

    IEEE IAS Annual Meeting

  • Family Housing

    Family Housing

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    2026.10.05

    Today we review accommodations education settlements provide for students starting a family in high school and in college.

    best PTG

    “One of the Family” 1880 | Frederick George Cotman

    • MIT — graduate student family. MIT has just profiled a graduate-student family and the community they found among other student parents. MIT News
    • MIT — actual infrastructure for student families. Three on-campus family-housing options, backup childcare and childbirth/parental accommodations. Useful factual companion to #3 rather than merely university atmospherics. Office of Graduate Education
    • UC Davis — Student Parent Space. A new dedicated Student Parent Space is open, with fall programming beginning now and links to housing, childcare and resources for expecting/new parents. Another unusually direct Domestic University item. Student Parent Resources
    • UMass Amherst — family housing. Fall 2026 applications are open for students with children, spouses, partners or dependent relatives; notably, the page currently identifies October 1 as the beginning of its move-in window.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/housing/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-move-in/

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  • Illumination 400 (Outdoor Exterior)

    Illumination 400 (Outdoor Exterior)

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.06

    Illumination technologies have had a pattern of consuming about 35 percent of building electrical energy use.  That number has been pressed downward with the expanded application of LED luminaires and occupant responsive controls; much of the transformation hastened by the IEEE, IES and ASHRAE best practice catalogs.

    Today we run through the development status of these products with specific interest in exterior illumination best practice.  This topic also is covered in the 4 time monthly meetings of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/illumination-400/

     

     

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  • Wire

    Wire

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    2026.10.13

    https://standardsmichigan.com/wires/

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  • Fenestration

    Fenestration

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    2026.10.22

    https://standardsmichigan.com/door-n/

    https://twitter.com/ArashFMaleki/status/1538874635701338117?s=20&t=WQRNQqyRGEFSQS76nwQRSg

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  • Raisin Monday

    Raisin Monday

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    2026.10.26

    lorem

     

    Raisin Monday is traditionally celebrated at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It typically takes place on the third Monday in November. The event is part of the Raisin Weekend, a long-standing tradition where first-year students (freshers) are “adopted” by older students (academic parents) and engage in various activities and pranks.

     

    tradition is democracy of the dead, chesterton

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  • Tax Exempt Bonds

    Tax Exempt Bonds

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    2026.10.28

    “Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers

    Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/

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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: Autumn

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

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“Standard” History

 

 

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