[44net] How-To BGP?

Ok, so I am a licensed HAM, an amateur that has no formal education or job experience regarding networking. However, I believe I have a better handle on IT than most hams in general, present company excluded. (Anything I can do to help) I am assisting the Penn State Amateur Radio Club, a student organization, to get a couple of 1Gb network backbone connections lit up. One is dedicated to a D-star gateway (K3CR). The other location is the ham shack, for web browsing and other future uses, such as APRS Igate, IRLP or Asterisk. We will have a /29 assigned by the University. The two Microtik routers we have purchased are capable of BGP. The university will not advertise 44net, or allow me to announce BGP. sigh. Does anyone have any suggestions? Another regional resource we have in the state of Pennsylvania is PennREN. It is a partnership that built out fiber optics in a figure-eight footprint all around the state. They can provide connectivity (I would like to get a VPN server co-located in their facilities), but they also have dark fiber available. My long-term vision is to have a 501c(3) organized by hams light up a couple of those strands to create a regional 44net. Local hams/clubs would each have to provide their own 'last mile' I believe there is a group in Pittsburgh already doing something similar. I want to learn enough to understand the conversation. Thanks for the video! Jim Alles, KB3TBX