POUGHKEEPSIE – President Elizabeth Bradley has announced that Vassar College in the Town of Poughkeepsie will return to fully in-person learning and resume most pre-pandemic policies and protocols for the Fall 2021 Semester.
All students will be required to be vaccinated.
Classes will begin Monday, August 30 and the semester will end Friday, December 17, with all traditional pre-pandemic breaks returning as normal.
“With vaccinations ramping up across the state and nationwide, we are hopeful that life on campus this fall will be more in line with life prior to the pandemic,” President Bradley said. “Given this, our plan is to return everyone to in-person, on-campus learning.”
The college is also developing guidelines for the return to campus for many employees who are currently working from home. Department supervisors are expected to have plans in place for most employees by June. In the meantime, all employees are urged to become immunized from COVID-19 as quickly as possible.
“Protocols for the fall will be dictated by local and state guidelines; the use of masks, social distancing and other expectations that have become commonplace during the pandemic will be determined as we near the start of the semester,” Bradley said. “As always, our planning is based on science-driven data and predicated upon local, state and federal public health guidelines.”
