By Will Stribling and Molly Minta
Apr 26, 2021 9:24 AM
When COVID-19 hit Mississippi last spring, students at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville flooded Michelle Baragona’s office to withdraw from their classes.
They cited similar reasons, said Baragona, the college’s vice president of instruction. Their parents were laid off, so they needed to work. They no longer felt safe attending class in-person.
As the year wore on, withdrawal requests kept coming in as students struggled to overcome pandemic-related academic challenges. In the fall semester, Baragona said one student requested to withdraw because his grades had suffered after he was exposed to COVID and quarantined four times.
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April 22, 2021
Dear Campus Community,
As we prepare for a return to normal campus operations for the next academic year, which will include face-to-face instruction, full residence halls, and a complement of student events and activities, I am pleased to share the report of the Fall Planning Group, which will serve as a framework for our campus operational plan for the fall semester. The report offers a detailed operational guide and recommendations for re-establishing a robust living-learning environment that ensures the health and well-being of our campus community.
Our efforts will focus on offering students a full residential, in-person college experience in September safely. We will require all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to live or learn or conduct research on campus or access campus resources to be fully vaccinated prior to the beginning of the fall semester, on the basis of expected additional state, federal and legal guidance and vaccine availabil
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UMass, Hampshire College to require student vaccinations
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Published: 4/22/2021 8:50:51 PM
AMHERST All students at the University of Massachusetts living and studying on campus in the fall semester will be required to receive full COVID-19 vaccinations.
UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, in a letter sent to the campus community Thursday, announced that the university is preparing for a return to normal campus operations on Sept. 1 that will include face-to-face instruction, full residence halls and traditional student events and activities.
“We will require all undergraduate and graduate students who wish to live or learn or conduct research on campus, or access campus resources, to be fully vaccinated prior to the beginning of the fall semester, on the basis of expected additional state, federal and legal guidance and vaccine availability, and subject to religious and disability accommodations pursuant to state an