Bee Campus and Bee City USA are an initiative of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation to educate students and the public about bees and pollinators. Today there are more than 400 campus and city affiliates of this initiative. This initiative grew because of the concerning decline of insect pollinators in the USA. Other USA pollinator conservation programs include the Pollinator Partnership and the Pollinator Protection at EPA.

In June 2019 the University of San Francisco became the 70th campus to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program. By 2024, the Bee Campus USA program had more than 200 certified Bee Campus USA affiliates across the country.

Not all campuses that teach Beekeeping and Agriculture Pollinator are part of the Bee Campus USA program. For example, Cornell University pioneered its Beekeeping Education more than a century ago, and is well known for its Pollinator Network, yet it is not an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA. The Coggshall family is well known for its contribution to beekeeping at Cornell and around the country since the 19th C. Here is a description of the Beekeeping Course taught by William L. “Lamar” Coggshall in Winter 1937 at Cornell.

For a current list of the Bee Campus USA and Bee City USA affiliates, please click here.