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Updated: 5:59 PM EDT May 5, 2021 Another university in Massachusetts is requiring its students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus.Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow and other school officials made the announcement Wednesday in a letter to the campus community.Exceptions will be made for Harvard students who do not wish to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons.Students who are planning to be on campus should be at least two weeks out from receiving their final dose of a Food and Drug Administration-authorized or approved vaccine Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson or by the World Health Organization, such as AstraZeneca, before the start of the upcoming fall semester.International students and others who are unable to get access to authorized COVID-19 vaccines before the fall will be offered vaccination upon arrival by the university. Those students, however, may be subject to additional requirements, such as more frequ
A growing number of colleges and universities throughout the United States are requiring that students receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend in-person classes and, in some cases, to even participate in any on-campus activities.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that more than 100 institutions of higher education will require students to receive coronavirus vaccines in order to attend in-person classes in the fall.
This week, the Massachusetts State University system joined that growing number of colleges and universities across the country.
The presidents of the nine universities in the system unanimously decided to require undergraduate and graduate students who are attending in-person classes, conducting research on campus, living in residence halls or participating in campus life activities to become fully vaccinated prior to the start of fall classes.