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A growing number of schools are hosting campus welcome events that include dogs of faculty and staff.
Naturally, a woman had the idea. A few years ago, Kathy Bradley, director of the Health and Counseling Center at Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College, saw an article about psychologists using pets to help de-stress students. She had just gotten two new pups and wanted to help her then employer, Susquehanna University PA, to improve retention.
"I thought, why not have a few days where the 'threatening' professors and staff could bring in their dogs to help new students realize that we're real people too," she ...