NIU should invest in more therapy dogs because of their benefits to the mental health of the NIU community. By helping students, faculty and staff, therapy dogs can assist in developing healthy mentalities throughout NIU. Additionally, the increasing number of permanent therapy dogs in and around NIU’s campus would be beneficial. While there is Chase,.
College students are no strangers to stress. There is constant pressure to succeed academically, professionally and even socially. Universities can help provide relief for students by offering different programs such as therapy animals. While dogs seem to be the most popular therapy animal, other animals can be used. Therapy animals can include cats, fish, bunnies.
Director of operations at Historic Fort Steuben and the Steubenville Visitors Center.
It’s funny how simple statements can spark or jog a memory of certain events. It is one of the wonders of our humanity that I seem to take advantage of quite often. I was in a situation like that this past week when I was thinking about this article. My wife mentioned to me one morning that she had a dream we were traveling around the country like gypsies asking for a piece of paper to write on. That reminded me of one of my absolute favorite pieces of Ohio Valley lore, that of the gypsies who wandered our area in the first half of the 20th century.