John-Tyler Binfet is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, and the founder and director of the Building Academic Retention through K9s (B.A.R.K.) program. Established in 2012, B.A.R.K. oversees 65+ dog-handler teams participating in on-campus and community programming and studies to assess the effects of therapy dogs on students’ mental health and […]
John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor in the Okanagan School of Education at the University of British Columbia where he is the Director of Graduate Programs and the Director of UBC’s long-running canine therapy program titled Building Academic Retention through K9s (B.A.R.K.).