COVID-19 vaccine still required for Bryn Athyn College students in August

Eric Carswell, President, Bryn Athyn College | Bryn Athyn College

By East Montgomery Times

Sep 21, 2023

Bryn Athyn College is one of only 21 colleges in Pennsylvania 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 Bryn Athyn College is one of 21 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.

Pennsylvania Schools Continuing to Implement a COVID-19 Mandate in August

School Name	City
Allegheny College	Meadville
Bryn Athyn College	Bryn Athyn
Bryn Mawr College	Bryn Mawr
Bucknell University	Lewisburg
Cabrini University	Strafford
Gwynedd Mercy University	Valley
Haverford College	Haverford College
Moore College of Art and Design	Philadelphia
Neumann University	Fisher Corners
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine	Philadelphia
Robert Morris University	Carnot-Moon
Salus University	Elkins Park
Seton Hill University	Greensburg
Swarthmore College	Swarthmore
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford	Bradford
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg	Greensburg
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown	Johnstown
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville	Titusville
Widener University	Chester
Williamson College of the Trades	Media