By Colin A. Young, State House News Service
Joining Northeastern University, Emerson College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Massachusetts state university system bcame the latest to require that its students be vaccinated against the coronavirus before returning to campus for in-person classes in the fall semester.
Undergraduate and graduate students who are attending in-person classes, conducting research on campus, living in residence halls or participating in campus life activities will be required to become fully inoculated prior to the start of the 2021 academic year, the presidents of the nine state universities agreed, according to the State Universities Council of Presidents.