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US colleges will require students to be vaccinated, despite state policies:
A growing number of US colleges have said all students must be fully vaccinated before returning to campus, in a move likely to anger some state governors. At least 14 colleges have said vaccination will be required so far, according to a CNN tally, and that number is expected to grow.
In late March Rutgers University became one of the first institutions to declare that having all students vaccinated will allow for an "expedited return to pre-pandemic normal."
Cornell, Brown, Notre Dame, Northeastern, Syracuse, Ithaca and Fort Lewis have made similar announcements, though all will make exceptions for medical or religious reasons. Cornell has also created an online registration tool so students and staff can register their vaccination status.
Two colleges, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, and Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Broward, Florida, have gone a step further, requiring students and all campus employees to be vaccinated.
NSU's policy puts it on a collision course with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. After NSU's announcement on April 1 DeSantis signed an executive order stating that vaccines are available but not mandated. Crucially the order prohibits any government entity or business from requiring a vaccine passport. NSU said Thursday that it is reviewing the executive order.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @02:53PM (4 children)
Universities are still subject to state law, they will have to comply.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 12 2021, @03:04PM (3 children)
Or they can litigate.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 12 2021, @08:04PM (2 children)
Or students can enroll in a university in an environment (state, whatever) that isn't mandating all the mask-n-vaccine nonsense. Even if there are wait-lists for those, it would be a good opportunity to study ahead or otherwise enjoy life before it's your turn to get in. If a student wants to pay 50K to be treated like cattle in a nonstop Communist struggle-session, let 'em. If college was the way it is now when I considered it, I wouldn't have given 'em a damn dime of my money.
The next couple years will be interesting to see, not only on that front but with streetside business. For example you have 2 bars, restaurants, whatever. One is bitchy about masks, the other doesn't require them and has a no harassment policy with regard to masks or distancing. Which one do you think will get more business? Good way to separate the scared geezers and petty tyrant control-freaks from normal people who aren't buying the hoax and just want to have a good time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @09:39PM (1 child)
They're making me take a measles vaccine to attend too? I don't know how to feel about that yet because I haven't heard whether Dr. Trump thinks measles vaccine is for pussies or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13 2021, @07:55AM
TB tests for all our students. And faculty. And we want to know if they are asymptomatically carrying typhoid, Cholera, Blackwater fever, Dengue, Bubonic Plague, and gonorrhea and syphilis. This is why we require a medical clearance. Now if only we had a test for Right-wing Nut-job Turning Point Derangement disease. These people need help. They have no place in an actual University setting.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday April 13 2021, @02:00AM
The day I became eligible for a vaccine in my state, I signed up online and was told the earliest available appointment for a first shot was six weeks out. I imagine some states are even more backed up than my own and might not be able to get everyone in for a first dose by mid-June in order to get the second shot and 2 weeks of incubation by the first of August. How do colleges expect to handle students who have been told they must wait on a waiting list long enough that they cannot be fully vaccinated by the first day of classes? Will students be told to change their major to nursing in order to get onto the priority list?