Comments on: More March Madness: New Bicycle-Friendly Universities Announced

By: Bikeleague.org Blog » Blog Archive » The ABCs of a BFU: How Michigan Became a Bike Friendly Campus

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:30:12 +0000

[...] of a BFU: How Michigan Became a Bike Friendly Campus ShareLast month, the League announced its latest round of Bicycle Friendly University awards and the news took flight on Twitter. Students and staff tweeted the good news and, yes, a bit of [...]

By: Ben Kintisch

Ben Kintisch — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:20:44 +0000

I love this campaign! I’ve been highly successful canvassing with the NYC-centered Bike Friendly Business campaign, affiliated with Transportation Alternatives and their new Biking Rules! campaign.
We will soon be hosting a workshop at TA HQ in NYC to train other canvassers in the techniques I used so that many more people can sign up many more businesses!
I was poking around your site and started to read about your Bike Friendly Univ. program and really liked it. I’ve reached out to the students in the (neighboring) Pratt Institute Environmental Club, and as a part-time grad student at Brooklyn College, I will be trying to join up with the already existing Biking Club to see if they want to work with me on this project. Any tips?
Thanks for all your good work!
Ben Kintisch

By: Bill Nesper

Bill Nesper — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:00:51 +0000

Hi Josh,

Thanks. We would definitely love to see more too, but haven’t received very many applications from small liberal arts schools. We are always thinking of new ways to lower the barriers to participate in the program. This year we have launched a more streamlined application and shared more best practices in the resource library with the goal of making applying (and bike -project implementation) easier.
Smaller campuses can really have great bicycle-friendly results even with small investments.

Chatham University in Pittsburgh received a bronze BFU designation in 2011 and is the is the smallest school with the BFU designation (2270 students)

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:21:22 +0000

Every time you announce more universities and I look at the list, I wonder, “where are all the small liberal arts colleges?”

Have you every considered that there is something about your selection criteria that makes it particularly difficult for small colleges to participate?