Mississippi’s higher education governing board has voted to prohibit public universities in the state from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for students, faculty, and staff. At a Sept. 17 meeting, the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning voted 8–1 to prohibit the vaccine as a condition of enrollment or employment, except at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and other clinical settings. At an earlier meeting in August, the trustee board approved a motion that the IHL would not require COVID-19 vaccination for students and employees at Mississippi’s public universities. But the wording of that motion, which stated that “we would not impose any requirement on the universities to mandate vaccination,” led to the question of whether individual institutions were still allowed to issue their own vaccine mandates. The most recent college board vote, according to IHL spokesperson Caron Blanton, was meant to clarify the board’s position …
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