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Mandated COVID vaccine? CT universities take different approaches
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Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine wait on a table at Hartford HealthCare’s new mass vaccination clinic on the west campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. March 10, 2021.File / Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD Matriculating at public schools or universities means getting up to date on your immunizations, from measles to mumps to meningococcal.
But could the COVID-19 vaccine be next on the back-to-school list? At Wesleyan University, the answer is yes.
The private university in Middletown announced Tuesday that students must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before the start of the fall semester.
Jewish Ledger
UConn students hold rally to fight antisemitism on campus
By Stacey Dresner
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TORRS – After a reported seven antisemitic incidents this school year on the campus of the University of Connecticut Storrs – three that occurred during the week of Passover – UConn Hillel last week held “A Solidarity Gathering to Fight Antisemitism.”
The 90-minute gathering, held on UConn’s Student Union Lawn on Monday, April 5, was attended by representatives of the state’s Jewish community, UConn’s president, and UConn student leaders who vowed to be allies with the university’s Jewish population.
The gathering was held in response to three antisemitic acts in October of 2020 and four more incidents that occurred in February and March of 2021.
Ryan Caron King :: Connecticut Public Radio/NENC
Quinnipiac University in Hamden emptied after spring break last year. Many Connecticut colleges and universities are weighing whether to require that students be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning for the fall 2021 term.
Until Tuesday morning, the key question facing college administrators in Connecticut about the COVID-19 vaccine was whether they should require students to get immunized before returning to campus in the fall.
Then, after the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced a “pause” on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of concerns over the potential for blood clots, administrators’ attention for the moment turned to the question of how to vaccinate people on campus now.
Following a series of seven antisemitic incidents at UConn, students are calling for more transparency in the university’s bias incident investigation process, as well as more education on the Jewish faith in an effort to prevent hate incidents from reoccurring.