Nevada college students will no longer be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend classes in a new policy change. Any holds placed on student registrations for those who are unvaccinated will be lifted immediately.

Nevada’s public colleges and universities are allowing students who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to register for spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make permanent an emergency mandate.

Nevada’s public colleges and universities are allowing students who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to register for spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make permanent an emergency mandate.

Nevada’s public colleges and universities are allowing students who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to register for spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make permanent an emergency mandate.

The university says proof of the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer a requirement for spring 2022 enrollment and it expects to have all related holds cleared soon.

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A proposal to continue requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for Nevada’s college students was thwarted Tuesday night after a 12-member commission of state lawmakers voted 6-6 on party lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans against.

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In a party-line vote on Tuesday, six Republican lawmakers blocked the state Board of Health’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for college students and state health and corrections workers from becoming permanent.