Students Rally Against Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines at NJ University: ‘They’re Going to Keep Moving the Goalposts’
Hundreds of Rutgers University students and their parents held a rally on the university’s New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus on May 21 to speak out against the school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.
The event was organized by Turning Point USA, Young Americans for Liberty, and NJ Stands Up, a medical freedom advocacy group, in response to the university’s new requirement introduced in March that all students enrolled for in-person classes for the 2021 fall semester must be vaccinated for COVID-19.
The mandate doesn’t apply to students enrolled in fully remote online programs; it also allows exemptions from vaccination on medical or religious grounds, according to a statement at the time the requirement was announced.
A slew of colleges and universities are embracing COVID vaccine mandates, telling students if they want to attend classes on campus, they’ll need to be vaccinated.
Meanwhile, a look at job postings across the country reveals many employers are requiring job candidates to get vaccinated, or promise to get vaccinated within 30 days of hire.
Whether you’re a job hunter or a college student, you may soon face the prospect that your future plans could hinge on your willingness to get the COVID vaccine. But can colleges and employers legally require it? The answer is … complicated.
Colleges and universities are moving to mandate
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson is speaking as Douglass College’s 2021 Blanche, Edith, and Irving Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies. Joe Henson
Wilkerson, author of
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America s Great Migration (2010) and
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020), is speaking as the Douglass College’s 2021 Blanche, Edith, and Irving Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies. Through her role at Rutgers this spring, Wilkerson has participated in private events with students in the Department of Women s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a round table discussion with directors from the Institute for Women s Leadership.