Despite a federal judge declaring President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate unconstitutional, Penn State University will keep its Jan. 4 deadline requiring employees to be vaccinated, and some employees who choose not to get vaccinated will be given education and counseling.
“Many of you know [the mandate] is being challenged in the courts, so we don’t know the outcome of that process yet, but we are planning around it prevailing, and so implementing that mandate,” Penn State Provost Nicholas P. Jones said on Dec. 28 during the University Faculty Senate meeting. “We’ve got to prepare because there’s not a lot of runway between now and [Jan. 4].”
