Colleges consider whether to mandate COVID vaccine; RPI to mandate, others still considering | The Daily Gazette
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Colleges across the Capital Region are encouraging students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible but so far have split over whether to require returning students receive the vaccine.
While Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last week signaled a vaccine requirement would be critical in fully returning to in-person instruction on campus, it did not detail the specifics of a vaccine mandate.
“We are looking ahead to a full in-person experience in the fall semester with members of the community protected by required vaccinations, and the spread of infections under greater control,” college officials wrote in a campus reopening update last week.