To support the health and safety for all members of the Rutgers community, the university updated its existing immunization requirements for students to include the COVID-19 vaccine. It added: "In March, Rutgers was among the first universities to require the COVID-19 vaccine for Rutgers students. In a statement sent to Newsweek, a Rutgers University spokesperson said registering for classes that were fully remote was not the same as being enrolled in a fully online degree-granting program. On August 27, Hollar said he tried to pay his tuition but was locked out of his Rutgers email and student accounts. He continued: "This turned out not to be the case." I assumed the emails in my inbox pertaining to must apply to in-person students." Hollar added: "After submitting the survey, I got no pop-up indication that I still needed the vaccine, like I had seen in the past, and since I was online and the survey said I was all set. He told NJ.com he was last able to access his email on August 6 and started to have issues after he took a survey about the vaccine where he checked a box that said the mandate did not apply to him as a distance-learning student. The statement read: "Students enrolled in fully online degree programs (typically defined as having no access to on-campus facilities), as well as individuals participating in fully online or off-campus Continuing Education programs, will not need to provide proof of vaccination."ĭespite the guidance, Hollar said he was locked out of his Rutgers email and related accounts. It also added students studying remotely did not need to prove they had been vaccinated against COVID. In March, Rutgers updated its vaccine mandate information for students and said anyone who wanted to attend classes had to be jabbed, with exemptions allowed on medical and religious grounds. If someone wants to be vaccinated, that's fine with me, but I don't think they should be pushed." He told the outlet: "I'm not in an at-risk age group. The arrangement suited Hollar, who told NJ.com he had not been jabbed and did not want the COVID-19 vaccine.
It did not, however, require them for those students who had been studying remotely or focusing on online-only education programs. to mandate vaccines for students at all of its campuses. Rutgers later became the first university in the U.S. Why Parents Shouldn't Lie About Child's Age To Get COVID Vaccine Early.Biden Poised to Repeat Mistakes that Led to COVID Pandemic, Experts Say.All the U.S Colleges Requiring COVID Vaccines to Return to Campus this Fall.
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