On July 15, 2021 The University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner announced the 10-campus University of Hawaiʻi (UH) system, including the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus will not enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students to attend in-person classes in fall 2021.
The UH System had previously announced the COVID-19 vaccine would be required to attend in-person classes as long as at least one of the three vaccines available in the U.S- Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson- had been approved and fully licensed by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). None of the vaccines have full FDA approval as of July 15.
“When we announced that all students would be required to be vaccinated to participate on campus, it was with the condition, and frankly the expectation, that at least one vaccine would be fully approved by the FDA by the fall semester,” said UH President David Lassner, in a news release.
“The FDA has not completed the full approval process, so the student vaccine mandate … enforcement will be limited to students residing on campus not to attending classes in person.”
Please see the full UH News announcement here: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/07/15/high-uh-vaccination-rates-vaccine-mandate/
