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Southern California Institute of Architecture still requires COVID-19 vaccine for students in August

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Hernán Díaz Alonso, President, Southern California Institute of Architecture | Southern California Institute of Architecture

Hernán Díaz Alonso, President, Southern California Institute of Architecture | Southern California Institute of Architecture

Southern California Institute of Architecture is one of only 15 colleges in California that requires students to have a COVID-19 vaccine, despite more than 90% of colleges dropping vaccine mandates by August.

Updated data from Better Colleges showed Southern California Institute of Architecture is one of 15 colleges in August requiring a COVID-19 vaccine to be on-campus, in residence, or attend specific programs during the 2023-24 school year.

At the same time, reporting from the educational awareness group No College Mandates showed that 90% of U.S. 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.

California Schools Continuing to Implement a COVID-19 Mandate in August
School NameCity
American Jewish UniversityLos Angeles
California College of the ArtsSan Francisco
Claremont Graduate UniversityClaremont
Dominican University of CaliforniaSan Rafael
Pitzer CollegeClaremont
Saint Mary's College of CaliforniaMoraga
Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara
Scripps CollegeClaremont
Soka University of AmericaAliso Viejo
Southern California Institute of ArchitectureLos Angeles
University of RedlandsRedlands
University of San FranciscoSan Francisco
University of the PacificStockton
University of the WestRosemead
Western University of Health SciencesPomona

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