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How many Pennsylvania colleges in August still require COVID-19 vaccine for students?

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Ron Cole, President, Allegheny College | Allegheny College

Ron Cole, President, Allegheny College | Allegheny College

There are still 21 colleges in Pennsylvania that continue to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students to attend classes by August.

Updated data from Better Colleges showed 21 Pennsylvania colleges in August required a COVID-19 vaccine to be on-campus, in residence, or enrolled in certain programs.

At the same time, reports from the educational awareness group No College Mandates showed that 90% of colleges by August had rolled back their COVID-19 mandates.

“Is it any wonder college enrollment is down?” No College Mandates co-founder Lucia Sinatra wrote in a February 2023 opinion piece.

“The graduating class of 2023 has hardly known the freedoms older generations enjoyed — exuberant and unrestricted socializing, in-person intellectual debates and, of course, the freedom to choose whether to take an experimental medical intervention,” she wrote with Yasmina Palumbo of the pandemic response accountability group Restore Childhood.

Ian Miller with the news organization Outkick claimed the schools still requiring COVID-19 vaccines were implementing a “historically indefensible policy” that showed how “progressive administrators are more concerned with ideological virtue signaling than following science.”

The public health emergency about COVID-19 was officially closed by the CDC in May, 2023.

Pennsylvania Schools Continuing to Implement a COVID-19 Mandate in August
School NameCity
Allegheny CollegeMeadville
Bryn Athyn CollegeBryn Athyn
Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr
Bucknell UniversityLewisburg
Cabrini UniversityStrafford
Gwynedd Mercy UniversityValley
Haverford CollegeHaverford College
Moore College of Art and DesignPhiladelphia
Neumann UniversityFisher Corners
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicinePhiladelphia
Robert Morris UniversityCarnot-Moon
Salus UniversityElkins Park
Seton Hill UniversityGreensburg
Swarthmore CollegeSwarthmore
University of PittsburghPittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh at BradfordBradford
University of Pittsburgh at GreensburgGreensburg
University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownJohnstown
University of Pittsburgh at TitusvilleTitusville
Widener UniversityChester
Williamson College of the TradesMedia

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