More on Stephens College

This is great! The animal rescue Columbia Second Chance works with Stephens College to allow students to foster a pet. They provide vet care and food and will take the pet during breaks. Check out Pet Central for more information.

It's also mentioned in an article by the Columbia Daily Tribune, Foster Program Offers Benefits to Pets and Potential Adopters.

And there's a clip from the Today show on Pet Central in this blog post, Dogs in College: A Closer Look.

Foster Dog Dorms--Update 2

Thanks to my friend Jessi VanPelt for sharing this article titled Make Me Do It! on her facebook wall. It points out the benefits when fosters help adopt out the pets they are fostering or, in otherwords, they serve as adoption agents (see the article On the Fast Track to More Adoptions). When this was done by the Louisiana SPCA it resulted in increased numbers of first time shelter adopters and a zero rate of return of fostered pets.

Also, here is another article (titled Pets take the bite out of dorm life) which describes the benefits of having pets in dorms. These include making it easier to adjust to college and less stress for students.

Fundraising idea: Paper Retriever Recycling

An additional way to raise funds would be via the Paper Retriever. The students could use it to recycle their college newspaper. According to the website, for the Orlando area they can also take magazines as well as school paper. They can recycle paperback books, so any paperback books that are weeded from the campus library, bookstore, and used bookstore can go into the paper retriever.

We could even market it in a humorous way. "Think you know all the dog breeds? Have you heard about the Paper Retriever?"