Stephens College: Pet Floor News Coverage

Pet Floor News Coverage
Pets make home at Stephens College
Stephens College has gained local, regional and national media coverage for its popular pet floor program. Begun as a pilot program in Fall 2004, the program boasts approximately 60 students and their four-legged friends, and occupies two residence halls.

Colleges Begin to Open Doors to Pets—Paw Prints Magazine, December 2005
Can dogs go to college?—Dog Fancy magazine, September 2005
Some schools allow pets to liven residence halls—The Eagle, March 31, 2005
Animal dorm—The Christian Science Monitor, March 15, 2005
Missouri college is a real animal house—The Boston Globe, Oct. 24, 2004
More dorms allowing pets—The Wichita Eagle (KS), Oct. 3, 2004
Freshman’s best friend brightens dorm life—The Arbiter Online (ID), Sept. 13, 2004
The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)—Sept. 10, 2004
Freshman’s best friend brightens dorm life—Fort Wayne News Sentinel (IN), Sept. 8, 2004
Listen up, Marys and little lambs—Brownwood Bulletin (TX), Sept. 8, 2004
A Pet Cause—Fort Wayne News Sentinel (IN), Sept. 7, 2004
College dorm OKs furry roommates—Deseret Morning News (UT), Sept. 4, 2004
Pet-friendly dorm wing debuts at Missouri college—THESTATE.COM (Columbia, SC), Sept. 4, 2004
Freshman's best friend brightens dorm life—The Kansas City Star (MO), Sept. 3, 2004
New programme allows pets to go to college—Independent Online (South Africa), Sept. 3, 2004
Editorial cartoon—Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), Aug. 29, 2004
Pet-friendly dorm wing debuts at Stephens College (AP story)—Kansas City Star (MO), Aug. 28, 2004
College: It's a dog's life, literally—St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), Aug. 26, 2004
Pets find new home on campus—Columbia Missourian (MO), Aug. 25, 2004
Dorm a haven to some pets—Columbia Daily Tribune (MO), Aug. 24, 2004

The Stephens story also has been picked up in the following media:
Pet-friendly dorms—The Cavalier Daily (VA), October 13, 2006
Sniffing out profits from pets—Kansas City Star, March 21, 2006
The pet industry, worth $35 billion, supports numerous types of animal businesses. Stephens College’s pet floors attract students who want to bring pets with them while pursuing a degree.
U.25, a publication of United Services Automobiles Association, Winter 2005
Stephens College Director of Residence Llife Paulina Perkins is quoted about the Stephens pet floor program.
Animal House—Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, Nov. 9, 2004. This story also was picked up by the Bradenton (FL) Herald, Daytona Beach News Journal, Washington Post (College Offers Open Admission—for Pets; Dogs, Cats Ease Students' Transition, Nov. 14, 2004), Tallahassee Democrat (Animal House: not the movie, but a dorm, Nov. 14, 2004), and Miami Herald (Florida's Eckerd one of few colleges to allow pets in dorms).
Pets make good roommates for some George Washington U. students— U-Wire, Nov. 22, 2004
Animal house: Missouri college dorm welcomes pets—Indystar.com (IN), Sept. 21, 2004
Dog Days: a treat for students; Susquehanna uses canines to cheer up homesick freshmen—Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, Sept. 19, 2004
College keeps students chipper with pet-friendly dorms—Centre Daily Times, Sept. 13, 2004
Charleston Gazette, Sept. 11, 2004
College Dorms Welcome Furry Friends, Among Other Pets—U-Wire, Indiana Daily Student, Sept. 10, 2004
Listen Up, Marys and Little Lambs...—Brady Standard-Herald (TX), Sept. 7, 2004
A real- life ‘Animal House’—Pasadena Star-News (CA), Sept. 7, 2004
College begins a pet-friendly dorm wing—The Miami Herald (FL), Sept. 4, 2004
Stephens Welcomes Collegiate Cats, Dogs—Albuquerque Journal (NM), Sept. 4, 2004
Pets go to college at Midwestern school—Reading Eagle (PA), Sept. 4, 2004
Fido goes to College—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), Sept. 4, 2004
Pet-friendly dorm wing debuts at Missouri college—Galveston County Daily News (TX), Sept. 3, 2004
A real 'Animal House'—The Grand Rapids Press, Sept. 3, 2004
Pet-friendly dorm wing debuts at Missouri college—Santa Barbara News-Press (CA), Sept. 3, 2004
KOMU-TV (Columbia, Mo.), Aug. 27, 2004
MO. college opens pet-friendly dorm wing—Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA)
Pets help make college soft and fuzzy—Chicago Tribune (IL)
College experiments with its own animal house—Baltimore Sun (MD)
College offers pet-friendly dorms—WCNC (Charlotte, N.C.), Aug. 30, 2004
Pet-Friendly Dorm Opens At Missouri College—NBC4 (Washington, D.C.), Aug. 30, 2004
Pet-Friendly Dorm Opens At Missouri College—KPRC-Local 2 (Houston, TX), Aug. 30, 2004
National On-Campus Report
Washington Post Express
Los Angeles Times
Southampton Press (NY)
www.yahoo.com
www.AOL.com
Paul Harvey
Academic Impressions newsletter
University Business
With 'Dog Days,' university uses pets to reach students—Kansas City Star (MO); WNEP-TV (Scranton, PA), Northeast PA News, PennLive.com, Erie Times-News
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