Twenty-six public university campuses do not require vaccination; this represents approximately 55 percent of students enrolled at those schools.
Most of the largest public universities in the U.S. are not requiring students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a new semester begins, an analysis by the Associated Press found.
Officials are working with students who have not complied with the mandate to understand their concerns about the vaccines, said the university's interim president, Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, a pediatrician. Ten COVID-19 infections have been recorded among students since the semester began, according to UConn, where officials say 97 percent of students are vaccinated.The Orlando campus is holding a raffle with prizes for vaccinated students, offering the shots at its student health center and rolling out a campaign urging students to get"Vacci-Knighted"—a play on the name of its sports teams, the Knights.prevents the school and other organizations in Florida from mandating vaccines.
In the first week of classes, random sampling found 72.6 percent of those surveyed had at least one vaccine dose, university spokesman Chad Binette said. He said the school is using incentives to try to push that number higher, including the raffle where vaccinated students have a chance to win textbooks, computers and $5,000 worth of tuition and fee waivers.
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