For Colleges, Vaccine Mandates Often Depend on Which Party Is in Power
Hoping for a return to normal, more than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden.
Saint Mary’s College in Indiana was one of the first colleges in a Republican-controlled state to require that students be vaccinated against the coronavirus next school year. Credit...Carlos Javier Ortiz for The New York Times
May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
For more than 400 colleges and universities, it is being billed as the ticket to a normal year on campus: Require all students to be vaccinated for the coronavirus before they can matriculate next fall.