One SUNY student said if officials really want to reduce exposure on campuses by forcing students to get vaccinated, then all segments of the higher education community should be required to get a jab. âI feel like thatâs messed up ⦠Itâs not fair that they can choose not to get it," Madison Mack, a senior international relations major at Buffalo State, said of SUNY employees not be covered by the vaccination edict. Extending the mandatory vaccine order for SUNY employees would run into unions representing those workers that have something college students donât have: political might. SUNY last year enforced mandatory testing for students in certain cases, while, according to one SUNY document, such testing was âstrongly recommendedâ per written understandings between SUNY and various unions representing employees at the college system.