Covid-19 vaccine mandates remain in full effect on college campuses around the nation and Santa Clara University (SCU) is one of the strictest schools to date.
While most colleges have lifted their vaccine mandates, SCU in California is forcing students to make the choice: either get their updated shots or drop out.
Back in 2021, SCU made the announcement that all students would need their COVID vaccines for fall enrollment or after approval. Then, by mid-summer, the school announced that students were required to receive the vaccine “whether or not current U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals for the three vaccines have changed from “emergency use” to “full” status by that date.”
In December 2021, SCU mandated the booster midway through the academic year when students were already into their class semesters and had no choice but to either comply or lose thousands of dollars in tuition payments.
The three-dose requirement remained well into the 2022-2023 school year.
Even after emergency declarations were lifted in April 2023, SCU updated its requirement for incoming freshmen.
According to the Epoch Times, on May 8 – one week after the fall 2023 enrollment deadline – SCU quietly updated its COVID vaccine policy to “require one bivalent dose for incoming freshmen (but not returning students), regardless of how many COVD vaccines they had previously taken.”
On May 31, SCU updated its policy yet again – this time, requiring either three previously taken monovalent doses or one bivalent dose for all community members.
SCU offered no religious exemptions for students and limited medical exemptions for qualifying students. Faculty and staff were, however, permitted to request exemptions.
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