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COVID-19: College In Hudson Valley Requiring All Students To Be Vaccinated COVID-19: College In Hudson Valley Requiring All Students To Be Vaccinated
Covid-19: College In Hudson Valley Requiring All Students To Be Vaccinated A college in New York will require students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they return to campus in the fall. The Hudson Valley institution, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, announced this week that there will be no remote learning provided in the next academic year, and that all students will be required to receive vaccinations as the college reopens. The only exceptions will be made for medical or religious reasons, Vassar President Elizabeth Bradley said, noting that the college is “re-committing to our core educational model, and therefore we will no longer be offering a remot…

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COVID-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus COVID-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus
Covid-19: Vassar College Reveals Plans For Bringing Students Back To Campus Another Hudson Valley college has announced its plans for reopening its campus for the first time since March in the fall as New York recovers from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The plan for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie is calling for the arrival of small groups of students to campus on staggered dates beginning on Saturday, Aug. 15, with classes beginning on Monday, Aug. 31. Students who are unable to return to campus or who choose not to do so will be able to take courses remotely.  According to Vassar President Elizabeth Bradley, the college will be employing a comb…

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Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5 Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5
Board Member From Area College Quits Over Backlash To Netflix Series On Central Park 5 Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned from the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, Vassar College, in the wake of the backlash she’s received for her role in helping oversee the “Central Park Five” case three decades ago that saw five teenage boys of color wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape. The former prosecutor has been in hot water since the release of the Netflix miniseries “When They See Us,” which depicts a dramatization of the trial of the teens who were wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989. Fairstein was a prosecutor in the case, which came un…

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