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Students walk to the Slep Student Center on the Penn State Altoona campus on Friday afternoon. Rutgers and Cornell universities have made the move to require their students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus in the fall. While several area institutions are not requiring their students to follow suit, they are strongly encouraging students to get vaccinated. /
Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Area colleges and universities are not requiring students to get vaccinated for COVID-19 as fall approaches.
Two weeks ago, officials at Rutgers University announced a vaccine mandate for students, and Cornell University soon did the same. So far in central and western Pennsylvania, however, schools are shying away from mandates, instead strongly encouraging students to get vaccinated.