The University of Virginia has announced that it has disenrolled a number of students prior to the upcoming fall semester.
As reported by CNN, a spokesperson for the university confirmed that the decision was made on Friday after 238 students failed to comply with the UoV's Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
Further details provided to The Washington Post by spokesperson Brian Coy confirmed that "only 49 of those students had actually selected courses, meaning that a good number of the remaining 189 may not have been planning to return to the university this fall at all, regardless of our vaccination policy."
Officials also revealed to the post that after the university announced its vaccine mandate back in May, "more than 96 percent" of students have been in compliance.
Additionally, 335 students have been granted waivers due to medical or religious reasons.
Mr. Coy also clarified to CNN the definition of "disenrolled", saying that these students are "not eligible to take courses".
"If you're unvaccinated, we ask that you wear a mask at all times - indoors or outdoors -whenever you're around people," Coy added. "Anyone unvaccinated and has an exemption will have to test once a week, we're starting once a week: That might go up."
Any unvaccinated students were also given a warning that they would need to get receive the inoculation by June 1 in order to avoid disenrollment.
Coy added that students do have until August 25 to follow the Covid-19 vaccine mandate and re-enroll for fall classes. Additionally, students who follow the regulations can also return to campus for the spring semester.
Students have until Aug. 25 to get into compliance and re-enroll for fall semester classes, Coy added. Students can also choose to return to campus in the spring, but only after meeting the vaccination requirement.
Per the official university website, there will be approximately 18,000 undergraduate and approximately 9,000 graduate students studying at the university come the fall semester.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan explained in a town hall earlier this month the importance of vaccines to in-person learning.
"We are in a much better and much different position than we were last year, primarily because of the vaccines and the extraordinarily high vaccination rate in our community," Ryan said.
"This means we can return in person to classes, activities, sporting events and research labs as we have been planning to do in the fall semester, with the residential experiences that are at the heart of this university."
