Vaccination Guidelines
The College of Wooster is committed to operating our campus safely and to providing excellent campus and educational experiences. Throughout the pandemic, our decisions about how to achieve this have been guided by the best public health expertise, and we have evolved and adapted our plans as the pandemic and the science have evolved.
Student Vaccination Policy
Because Wooster is a fully residential campus, where all students live together in communal residence halls and houses, all College of Wooster Students are required to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccination prior to arrival and remain up to date with any recommended COVID-19 vaccinations while a student at The College of Wooster. Our current student vaccination rate is 98 percent.
Click here for CDC COVID Vaccination Information.
When Are You Up to Date? You are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines if you have completed a COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received the most recent booster dose recommended for you by CDC.
Please report any changes in your vaccination status using the Student Wellness Vaccination Portal.
Students should have their CDC or WHO vaccination card with them on campus.
We understand that there are instances that students may want to request an exemption to receiving the initial vaccine or subsequent boosters were for moral, religious our medical reasons. Students wishing to request a vaccine exemption should complete the VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM two weeks prior to the vaccine deadline announced by The College of Wooster. Students who have already received a vaccine exemption do not need to re-apply for subsequent booster doses.
Employee Vaccination Policy
The College of Wooster strongly encourages employees and contracted employees to receive their COVID-19 vaccination and receive booster immunizations as recommended by the CDC, Ohio Department of Health and Wayne County Health Department to help protect the campus against new variants of the coronavirus. Employees, please make sure to update your vaccination status under “Vaccination Information” in Scot Web.
- All Employees and Contracted Employees of The College of Wooster must self-report their vaccination status at the beginning of each semester via Scot Web.
- New employees / contracted employees must report their vaccination status on their first day of employment.
- The College of Wooster will provide, periodically, the opportunity for employees to receive the most current COVID-19 vaccination on campus as part of their workday.
All Covid related questions can be directed to communityhealth@wooster.edu.
Fully vaccinated students should submit their COVID vaccine record information prior to their arrival to campus.
When Are You Up to Date? You are up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines if you have completed a COVID-19 vaccine primary series and received the most recent booster dose recommended for you by CDC.
Please report any changes in your vaccination status using the Student Wellness Vaccination Portal.
All World-Health Organization-approved vaccines meet the College’s vaccine requirement. (Currently listed vaccines are Astrazeneca, Sinopharm, Sinovac/Coronavac, Pfizer/BioNTech, Serum Institute of India, Moderna and Janssen/Johnson&Johnson.) We will assist international students who cannot obtain access to an approved COVID vaccine before arrival in the United States with getting vaccinated on arrival in Wooster.
Staff and faculty are strongly encouraged to get vaccinated. Staff and faculty may submit immunization records here. Some college activity may be restricted to vaccinated employees only.
Requirements are subject to change as we follow the CDC’s recommendations.
The COVID-19 immunization requirement is in place to protect the health and safety of our community. The deadline to file a request for vaccine exemption has expired. If you have questions, please email vaccine-exempt@wooster.edu.
Students who are not fully vaccinated (students who have an approved exemption, or international students who did not have access to vaccine prior to arrival) will still be able to participate in campus activities. However, they will be required to follow current public health protocols for unvaccinated people living in a congregate setting. At present, those protocols include wearing masks indoors when with those outside your household, social distancing, regular COVID-screening testing, and quarantining if exposed to COVID. Depending on CDC guidance when the fall semester begins, there may also be other limitations for unvaccinated individuals.
Note that students who have not been fully-vaccinated may be excluded from class and residence halls if an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease occurs on campus.
Where do faculty and staff report COVID exposure or a positive COVID test taken off campus?
If you are a member of the faculty or staff at The College of Wooster and have been exposed to COVID or have received a positive test result from testing off-campus, please fill out this form. Your results will be forwarded to Wooster’s testing team. If your results are negative you do not need to take any further action beyond completing the form. If your results are positive, someone from Contact Tracing will be in touch to discuss next steps.