Nevada’s public colleges and universities are allowing students who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to register for spring classes after a state legislative board refused to make permanent an emergency mandate.

The university says proof of the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer a requirement for spring 2022 enrollment and it expects to have all related holds cleared soon.

A proposal to continue requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for Nevada’s college students was thwarted Tuesday night after a 12-member commission of state lawmakers voted 6-6 on party lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans against.

In the second part of a three-episode arc, learn how the pandemic impacted Asian-American healthcare workers.

In a party-line vote on Tuesday, six Republican lawmakers blocked the state Board of Health’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for college students and state health and corrections workers from becoming permanent.

The vaccine mandate for college students in Nevada was struck down by state leaders Tuesday night.

Air Force veteran Ally Schroeder, 27, will graduate in May from UNLV with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition sciences. She has been paying for her tuition and housing through the G.I. Bill, which has provided money toward schooling or job training to service members since the 1940s.

Nancy Uscher, the Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), uses this opportunity to thank donors and show how their support makes all the difference in the following message.

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