We started our pets program about six years ago: Students have been allowed to bring their favorite furry, scaly or feathery friends to campus with them, or to foster or adopt a new pet pal once they'd arrived.
It's been a great program and for many of our students, it's made all the difference in that difficult transition from home to college.
In fact, it has been so popular that our "pet students" outgrew the Hillcrest spaces where we were allowing them to live -- and we hadn't even started making room for next fall's freshmen.
The result? Pet Central, Stephens' new all-pets, all-the-time pet-friendly living community in Searcy Hall. Starting in the fall, we'll be opening our new Doggy Daycare, we'll be promoting student entrepreneurship in a variety of pet projects, and we'll be welcoming our new and continuing students into a community designed just for them -- and their four-legged, finned and feathered BFFs.
The New York Times thought it was a story worth telling.
Me, too.
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