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  3. Bike for Earth Day 2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    C-U Bike to Work Day
    Encourage Bicycle Use
    Light the Night

    The 2nd Annual Bike for Earth Day 🌎 event was held on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026.

    At one of our four stations, attendees were able to register their bike and grab bike swag, gear, lights, and a 25-26 Bike-to-Work Day t-shirt. They also had the opportunity to enter a raffle for a free bike helmet or u-lock.

    The four stations were located at:

    1. Alma Mater
    2. Green and Lincoln
    3. Ikenberry Commons (Bike Shelter by Flagg Hall)
    4. National Soybean Research Center (along Pennsylvania)

    Overall, nearly 200 people participated and we gave out almost 175 bike light sets! Many people liked the fix-a-flat kit, bicycle seat covers, and orange snap-bracelets.

    Sarthak Prasad and two students standing at a table in front of Alma Mater; there is bike gear on the table.

    Alma Mater Station 2026

    Attached Files: 

  7. 1966-1967 F&S Annual Report

    Associated Project(s): 
    Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts
    Bicycle Counts

    F&S has the 1966 – 1967 annual report on bicycle lane traffic volumes, counting stations, bicycle surveys, and the number of bicycle racks and parking spaces on campus. Please see the attached scanned pictures. 

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  9. Weekly Update -- Bike Donations & Sales

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center

    Good news is that we’ve been getting more donations from folks that are mentioning the advertising campaign to donate before the end of the semester! Bad news is we’re getting more donations!  Jokes aside, we’ll work on processing/saving what we can from some of the older and less viable bikes. Still cranking out shop builds to keep up with demand as best we can. Staff is dwindling as their finals conclude and/or are rescheduled.

    The numbers:

    Donations: 10
    Visitors: 36
    Sales: $499.10
    Memberships: 5 for $180
    Tires/tubes 21 for $130

    Thanks!

  11. Land and Water Team May Monthly Meeting Minutes and Notes

    Associated Project(s): 
    Land and Water iCAP Team

    This month, the Land and Water iCAP Team met on May 6th, 9:00-10:00 AM, for its monthly meeting. This month, the team discussed the findings from testing pavement permeability at different lots around campus, monitoring the planting of pollinator-friendly areas, green infrastructure tracking, new iCAP 2026 objectives, and the End of Year Report for the 2025-2026 academic year. 

    Attached Files: 

  12. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - May 8, 2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees

    • Michael McKelvey
    • Quinn Connolly
    • Sarthak Prasad
    • Paul Foote
    • Christina Tran
    • Miriam Keep

    Discussion

    • Next MOU
      • F&S and iSEE have multiple talks next week
      • Paul will try to discuss with Student Services as well
    • Discussed differing roles of iCAP Portal and other sites w/sustainability info (e.g. iSEE, Bike @ Illinois)
      • Level of detail
      • Reporting about both current and past programs (transparency, replication, data sharing)
    • Quinn: with each new iCAP, need to rework Project hierarchy
      • Keep old information available in archive site
      • Update objectives, goals to match current iCAP
    • Continue discussion from last meeting
      • Locations - do we need Room Number?
        • Quinn, Sarthak, and Michael agree we can remove Room Number; will bring up at next meeting
        • Paul and Miriam agree that room number could be removed
      • Video library - is it useful?
        • Quinn: see value in keeping it
        • Images: might be helpful to have both an image gallery (highly curated) and image library (all images)

  17. Weekly Update -- Bike Donation & Sales

    Associated Project(s): 
    Campus Bike Center

    Getting busy! Staff will be departing this week and into next, making for some slim payroll.

    Elsewhere, we have seen a few donations come in thanks to the “donate your bike” campaign—so that’s good! 3 alone this week.

    Ramping up our For Sale bike production, as the weather warms and more folks are looking to ride.

     

    The numbers:

    Visitors: 42

    Sales: $1,074.50

    Memberships: 4 for $120

    Bikes (refurb): 2 for $370

    Bikes (B-a-B): 1 for $50

    Tires/tubes: 8 for $62

     

    Thanks!

  19. iCAP Education Team May Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Education iCAP Team
    Sustainability at Career Fairs
    Sustainability in Study Abroad

    The iCAP Education Team met on May 4th from 12-1 pm in person at the National Soybean Research Laboratory. The team discussed end of year updates for Sustainability in Study Abroad, Undergraduate Levenick Scholars Program, and the Green Career Forum. The team also discussed ideas for collaboration between iCAP teams as well as ways to achieve the 2026 iCAP objectives with several EcoReps. The meeting minutes are attached.

    Attached Files: 

  20. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - April 27, 2026

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Attendees

    • Michael McKelvey
    • Quinn Connolly
    • Sarthak Prasad
    • Paul Foote
    • Christina Tran
    • Miriam Keep

    Discussion

    • SSC files:
      • Sarthak recommends keeping the SSC files available on the site - useful for future submitters to find templates/examples
      • Paul: maybe move the old files to a separate archive site somewhere?
    • Evaluate whether we still need these fields:
      • Notes - does this actually get used?
        • Sarthak & Quinn: probably don't need it
        • Quinn: other approaches might be helpful, e.g. Flag for follow-up, task assignments
        • Miriam: vote to keep it; could be useful for documenting information like who to contact for updates, reminders for future
        • Paul: vote to keep it; helpful for documenting institutional memory, like information between staff members before they graduate and move on
      • Contacts section - do we need all these fields?
        • Miriam: often out-of-date
        • Quinn: recommend getting rid of Prior Contacts
        • Miriam & Quinn: recommend removing Project Leader, Team Members & Prior Contacts and just keeping Primary & add Secondary contact (including emails)
        • Sarthak: vote to remove Prior Contacts and keep Team Members - sometimes there are more than 2 team members; reason: give credit to the people involved
        • Miriam: don't see Portal as a log of who's been involved; hard to keep up-to-date; see this section primarily as a way of finding people to contact
        • Quinn: like the idea of the Team Members, but also recognize we need to be realistic about what we can actually keep up-to-date
        • Updating project info in Portal isn't as consistent as we'd like; we send out reminders periodically, but don't often get responses. Updates happen rather sporadically when we get info
        • Paul: this is good info to consider as we think through future of Portal management and updates. If we remove it, will past participants feel slighted?
        • Quinn: people are often listed elsewhere, e.g. Project Updates
        • Sarthak: listing only 1-2 people puts more burden on them for contacts than if we list the whole team
        • Paul: think we only need 1, maybe 2 people listed for purpose of contacting
      • Dates/Status section - do we need all the dates? Also, do we need Proposed By, Investigated By...?
        • Quinn: keep only Proposed By, Completed By, Cancelled By
        • Sarthak: agree; remove Investigated By, Approved By, maybe Started By
        • Sarthak: keep only Proposed/Founded By, Completed By, Cancelled By
        • Quinn: switch to a timeline? Add Description field to each section, Project Update lookup to (optionally) connect to the major update
      • Locations - do we need Room Number?
        • Quinn, Sarthak, and Michael agree we can remove Room Number; will bring up at next meeting on 5/8
        • (From discussion on 5/8) Paul and Miriam agree that room number could be removed
      • Video library - is it useful?
        • (From discussion on 5/8) Quinn: see value in keeping it
        • (From discussion on 5/8) Images: might be helpful to have both an image gallery (highly curated) and image library (all images)
    • Dark mode is here!! (with some peculiarities to be resolved)

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