Students attending a University of California and California State University campus in the fall will likely be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before accessing campus facilities, the two university systems announced this week.
In a joint announcement, the UC and CSU systems said Thursday that they intend to require all students as well as faculty and staff members to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The requirement is expected to take effect for the fall 2021 term or when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives its full approval of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA has approved three vaccines for emergency use but has yet to grant full approval for any of them.
“Together, the CSU and UC enroll and employ more than one million students and employees across 33 major university campuses, so this is the most comprehensive and consequential university plan for COVID-19 vaccines in the country,” CSU Chancellor Joseph Castro said.
Both university systems are planning for most of their classes and activities to be in person this fall after college campuses across the state were shuttered for most of 2020 due to the pandemic.
The CSU and UC systems currently require vaccinations for multiple illnesses, including measles, chickenpox, tetanus and meningococcal disease, before students can attend classes or live and work on campus.
Both university systems already strongly encourage students and staff to get the coronavirus vaccine and plan to work with student advocacy groups like the UC Student Association and the Cal State Student Association as well as labor unions representing staff and faculty members.
“Receiving a vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 is a key step people can take to protect themselves, their friends and family, and our campus communities while helping bring the pandemic to an end,” UC President Dr. Michael Drake said.
UC Student Association President Aidan Arasasingham said he expects his organization to support the requirement as long as the UC system maintains a clear timeline, equitable access and a transparent waiver process for people who cannot get the vaccine due to a medical condition or religious exemption.
“I think the vaccine requirement is a welcome announcement to students,” Arasasingham said. “It’s something that I think better guarantees us the kind of fall experiences that many students are longing for and the reopening of campuses that we’ve been looking forward to.”
How can they when it’s not FDA approved and it’s on a voluntary basis? Are they also going to require STD testing too? Many people don’t even get flu shot. What happened to my choice my body?
agree KT! They can recommend, but never force.
It will be required if any of the vaccines get full FDA approval
What I don’t understand is: what if someone gets a vaccine that ends up not being FDA approved? Will they have to get a different one?
They’re also suggesting students get vaccinated ASAP but even then, how do we know they’ll get one which will end up being fully approved in time for Fall 21 classes?
Not when it affects their bottom line
Why not play it safe? The vaccine has been proven effective. 570,000 American deaths from COVID-19 proves it is not a hoax, as claimed by some politicians and wing nut media. Be part of the solution.
Doh… because it’s not proven to be safe with all the deaths and illness
from the vaccine
“Proven Safe”?
LOL. Remember how many people died from ephedra and how quick they pulled it……not nearly as much as have died and even had complications from this Experimental vaccines!
570,000 have died – supposedly positive for coronavirus. Accuracy matters.
Not illegal. UC already requires flu vaccines.
And so it begins…
Glad we can’t be forced to get the vaccines. Figures Commie run California starts it..
UC, CSU Systems can expect whatever they want.
The fact is that not everyone will get the shot.
Reasons will vary from one person to the next but getting vaccinated should never be conditional to doing anything.
Neither should be getting tested.
The government is incapable of doing anything very well.
All anyone has to do is look at the confusion, misstatements, and mismanagement of this China Virus charade.
Your duly elected government is not a trustworthy servant of the people.
It is a self-serving, independent, corrupt, mob-like organization that views the American people with disdain.
We need to take our Republic back and return to our Founder’s vision for a free America.
The whole world is laughing about the lunacy that has gripped this country. Joe Biden is a laughing stock throughout the world. Putin has already backed him down and I’m sure China, North Korea, and Iran are waiting for their turn. This country is now at far more risk than it was on December 7, 1941.
Keep your powder dry.
Never. You can’t force anyone to get an experimental treatment. You can’t force anyone to get any medical treatment. This is just more fear porn
I agree Sam!
Agree 100%, Sam. I am amazed at the number of school systems and universities which are pushing an experimental, untested and unproven vaxx on students. Hope there is widespread non-compliance. This whole vaxx thing has gotten completely out of control. When did this country become a nation of sheep?
@will
When you and your buds tuned in to Fox news.
Just another backdoor procedure to coerce or ‘gently’ force people to get the poison. And, sadly, most people will do so! Those of you who said the shots would never be compulsory, what do you have to say now? Next it will be needing a passport or permit to travel, shop and go to restaurants, movies, sporting events, etc. Concert and other venues are already set to require proof of shots. All of this for a so-called virus that has NEVER been isolated and has a 99.8% survival rate as all other forms of flu and cold have. Wake UP! And ti make matters worse, supposed new variants will require further jabs for eternity! Are many of you who got the shots starting to smell a putrid rat yet? After all, you are still being told to wear a mask and socially distance from others even after taking two rounds of POISON! What more do you need as proof to show you you have been duped? At least save your children and grandchildren if not yourselves from further HELL ! Come on, what is it going to take to WAKE most of you UP!!!!
I will never have to worry about polio, hep b or C, and thanks to my Covid vaccine I have to worry less about that – what part of this is poison?? Why do we vaccinate dogs also for rabies etc? Perhaps because vaccinations work?????
It’s the right move. Nobody is forcing you to get the vaccine, but if you want the privilege to attend UC or CSU you’ll follow the rules.
Not sure what rock you’ve been hiding under…”education is a privilege”?
Sorry, you cannot deny anyone an education based on a Experimental medical procedure.
@Four Corners – I would agree with you if UC and CSU were private systems, but they’re not. They’re public systems supported by California taxpayers.
Every California resident has the right to attend UC or CSU IF their grades are good enough. The system cannot arbitrarily reject an applicant like a private school can.
@Anon, education in general is not a privilege, you can go anywhere and get an education, BUT, education at a UC or CSU IS a privilege, hence the need to apply to the college to be accepted… Kinda how most colleges work.
Four Corners, It’s not only the students, faculty and staff will be required also. Would you be OK with employees losing their jobs because they refuse the vaccine?
I would expect that the requirement would be immediately challenged and eliminated.
For those that don’t get it yet, the entire system of information is designed to keep you in a state of hyper emotion. This is how they continue to get away with the banking scam. EVERYTHING is about banking, oil, and real estate. But you’re obsessed with race and gender and COVID HOAX while they charge you to use tax payer funded roads.
The only way is to understand they want you distracted and not buy in. Vote them out (with your ID) and don’t believe the hype
Saying “the vaccine requirement is a welcome announcement to students” after saying it has already been “strongly encouraged” and noting that the FDA hasn’t granted full approval for any of the vaccines all in the same article. If you blink, you’ll miss the goalpost moving. The Giants have vax up painted on the field. The Warriors require either a vax card (or a picture of one), or a negative test from the last 48 hours to attend games in person. If the state is truly looking to open with “no restrictions,” expect to see more things like this.
Staff and students should be required to study and successfully pass a series of tests based on the 1776 Project. Oh, and study the mass-murder conducted by Lenin/Stalin, Mao, Castro/Che and Pol Pot. Not that that would do any good, but I would LMAO watch snowflakes melt and Liberal brain buckets explode when they get triggered.
Kids can’t go to school without getting their vaccines
Are you seriously comparing polio, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, to name a few, to COVID-19?
UC’s and the state colleges have always required certain vaccines before attending. This would be a new vaccine added to the list, but this is not a new practice. You would know this, if you attended college in the CA state system in the last 30 years. It says this will take effect after FDA approval.
I think the UC/CSU vaccine requirements were enacted about 20 years ago due to the influx of unvaccinated foreign students. They didn’t have the requirement when I was in school in the 1980s.
But the vaccines required at UC/CSU are identical to what is required to enter elementary school in most states. So, literally 100% of American students would already have the required vaccinations.
These vaccines are required because they prevent serious diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles.
COVID does not fall into that same category.
Boy, those conspiracy theorists have been batting a pretty solid average lately.
If you read the article, it says it is effective for fall 2021 term, OR when the FDA gives full approval. What’s missing here is it is the latter of the two. So, if full approval is given in October, it would be effective then. Stanford is also requiring a vaccine.
Once it receives full approval, it is not experimental. Also, Covid is a communicable disease and impacts campus housing, athletics, etc, just as the measles does.
People do have a choice, be vaccinated or attend a different school system.
https://anonup.com/thread/4506160
1984 never rang so true…
Great time to take a year off, see Europe, the cradle of Western Civilization.
Europe ain’t gonna let you if you’re not vaccinated.
Your right to refuse any medical treatment you do not want is protected by law. This legal protection became necessary when mental health professionals were performing prefrontal lobotomies and other cruel procedures and protocols for mental illness on otherwise healthy people … in this century. And, a very sadistic individual named Joseph Megele made an appearance during WWII performing questionable procedures on Jews in German interment camps as if they were mice in laboratory experiments. You might call this the advancement of science, if you were so inclined, but for those who were harmed, the experiments were cruel and hurtful, and in many cases, deadly.
The vaccines being touted as so miraculous by Fauci and others, are not FDA approved, and until they are they are they are not deemed safe for humans in spite of what anybody says. It will take years of data to determine their safety and effectiveness. They are simply experimenting on human subjects at this point. At the same time, they expect, and I repeat EXPECT, a certain percentage of adverse reactions, including but not limited to death, as a result of receiving the vaccine. Perhaps, only lifetime disability … but, who wants to chance it?
You simply cannot be forced to take it … legally.
“With an abundance of caution for the health, safety, and wellbeing of the teachers and students we have decided that vaccinations will be mandatory under the Health Emergency Declaration”.
That’s how they do it.
People don’t have “rights” any longer.
We all must obey the State.
I’m vaccinated, but I think this is unethical to require it of 18-year olds. Their Covid risk is so small that even rare side effects of the vaccines make it questionable as a risk-benefit analysis for them individually. I’m waiting for stories in the next few months about college kids getting vaccinated and dying from rare blood clot side effects – kids who never had any urgent need for the vaccine and only got it because their college said so. Lawsuits galore.
It’s all unnecessary anyway: most adults will be vaccinated nationwide by the fall, and Covid will be a low level reality,not a public health danger. When everyone has the option of protecting themself, why force others to do so? What is the justification when it’s not a public health emergency anymore!?
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
Take a year of and see America, then.
YES! Little kids are required to get certain vaccines before school. Big kids can do this!
Yep!
Many things UC have been unethical for a long time so this is just more of the same. While it might be a privilege to get admitted as some say here, that does not mean the UC admins can do whatever they want. There are actually established by-laws requiring certain treatment by the administration, and part of this states students cannot be punished for how they act under “duress,” and forcing someone to take a drug against their will seems to me “duress.” And telling a student that they can’t return in Fall and will have to find a new school, especially since it is now out of the admissions cycle, and they will have to sit out a year and most schools will only accept a fraction of transfer units anyway, this is just really unethical. So, for UC, par for the course.
They already are required to get certain vaccines to attend. Stop with the drama.
Please explain the “drama” I am creating. This vaccine is not approved by the FDA. Do you have personal knowledge of its risks or are you relying on others in the media? Your Kamala Harris said in the vice-presidential debates not to take the vaccine, she did not trust it. Was your leader wrong then or wrong now? Which version are you listening to? You mention other vaccines that are required, well when the polio vaccine was first mass produced, do you even know that one version (Cutter) actually caused 40,000 cases of polio and had to be discontinued? Basing one’s opinion on something just because a lot of people think something is right, sometimes leads to very unfortunate consequences.
And let the lawsuits begin.
I work for UC (the systemwide office in Oakland), and last year they could not mandate the flu shot due to threat of lawsuits. This is different, as they’ll put the COVID vaccine requirement in the same category as measles, mumps, etc. I had to prove I had inoculations when I went to school back in New York, but as an adult I’ve never had to show proof. So right now as the story reports, we’re being told that it will be mandatory if you’re at a UC location once a vaccine gets FDA approval. The other thing to consider is many employees do not want to commute 5x a week as remote working proved to many formerly distrustful managers that employees not only can work at home, but can be more productive and thrive.