College of Virginia disenrolls 238 college students for not complying with COVID vaccine mandate
The College of Virginia eliminated greater than 200 college students from its rolls for not assembly the college’s coronavirus vaccine requirement.
Of the 238 college students disenrolled, solely 49 had been really registered for fall semester courses, main the college to imagine that almost all of the scholars “might not have been planning to return to the College this fall in any respect,” college spokesman Brian Coy stated in an e-mail to The Virginian-Pilot.
The scholars had been eliminated after “receiving a number of reminders by way of e-mail, textual content, telephone calls, calls to oldsters that they had been out of compliance and had till yesterday to replace their standing,” Coy stated.
The college is requiring all college students, school and workers to get vaccinated earlier than returning to its Charlottesville campus except they’ve a medical or non secular exemption. About 96.6% of the college’s 27,115 undergrad and graduate college students have been absolutely vaccinated, the college stated earlier this week.
