University is weighing similar mandate for faculty, staff, but no decision has been made BU will work with international students receiving unapproved-by-US vaccines Boston University will require students enrolled in fall semester classes to be vaccinated against COVID-19, joining a growing wave of schools across the country taking the same step to return campus life to something close to normal after more than a year of historic disruption from the global pandemic. Whether faculty and staff will also be required to be vaccinated by the time in-person instruction resumes this fall is still being considered. (The University’s hybrid Learn