Thread by @BryanAlexander

There's a fascinating and at times depressing sketch of campuses responding to Delta at @insidehighered this morning:

insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/2…

@insidehighered "Colleges without mandates -- located in different geographical regions -- include Pennsylvania State University, which as of Monday reported a 67 percent student vaccination rate..."

Just 2/3rds.

@insidehighered "the University of Alabama... reported that at least 61 percent of students and 73 percent of employees had received at least one dose of a vaccine at its main campus in Tuscaloosa."

@insidehighered "The rate was lower at the [University of Alabama] Huntsville campus: 49 percent for students and 68 percent for employees."

@insidehighered In contrast, when Stockton University mandated a vaccine:

"some [students] were vaccine reluctant and having to take the vaccination to go back to school helped them make the decision to be vaccinated... ”

@insidehighered As of this morning, just over 1,000 American colleges and universities have vaccine mandates, or about 1/4th of the total, according to @chronicle :

chronicle.com/blogs/live-cor…

@insidehighered @chronicle Mandate:
"At Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, all students on campus have complied with the vaccination policy, either by getting vaccinated -- 2,660 students are fully vaccinated, and 276 are partially vaccinated as of Sept. 15 ..."