(ChurchLeaders) Although 2021 graduates only recently departed campus, universities across America have begun debating whether to require the COVID-19 vaccine when students return this fall. Evangelical Christians, a group with some of the highest rates of vaccine skepticism, are especially watching to see what faith-based and evangelical colleges decide.
So far, reports Christianity Today, only one of the 140 member schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) says it will require students to be immunized against COVID-19. That school, Seattle Pacific University, says it wants to protect the surrounding community and also reinforce its reputation as an institution that’s serious about science.