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What COVID-19 guidelines will be on college campuses this fall?
By Sheridan Hendrix - The Columbus Dispatch
Friends Jessica DeSena, right, and Camden Coggburn stay busy during the first day of fall classes at Ohio State University in August 2020.
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As life continues to reopen in this new season of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio’s colleges and universities are preparing to welcome students back with open and less socially distanced arms this fall.
Some schools already announced plans for their return to campus in the fall before students finished their exams this spring. But with guidance from the Ohio Department of Health and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention being frequently updated, and Ohio lawmakers trying to ban certain pandemic-related mandates, many school’s plans have already changed this summer.
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Denison University has announced because of the nature of its campus and learning culture, it will require student vaccinations for COVID-19.
As health conditions and official health orders and recommendations are rapidly evolving, educators are scrambling to review plans and set or adapt policies to meet a changing health terrain.
These changes are coming as COVID variants with potentially higher transmission rates and more severe health consequences continue to spread.
Ginny Sharkey, Director, Student & University Relations at Denison, issued a university statement on July 29 regarding the university’s COVID policy for 2021 students:
“As a fully residential university, where all students live together in communal dormitories and apartments, all students are required to be fully vaccinated as to COVID-19 for the coming academic year or have an authorized exemption.”