(ANSA) - NEW YORK, MARCH 26 - Harvard's students and professors will return to campus when the academic year resumes in autumn 2021. This was announced by the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Claudine Gay, specifying that the final plans will be announced at the end of May.
"The final official decision has not yet been made, but we expect a full return to face-to-face classes for college students," Gay announced.
Earlier this week the university administrators had anticipated plans to bring back all the university staff, including professors, starting on August 2.
As with almost all American universities, Harvard has adopted distance teaching methods for a year.
The hope is for a lessening of the pandemic in line with the Biden administration's commitment to offer a vaccine to all Americans by early summer.
Responding to this promise, NewJersey's Rutgers University has announced that all students will need to be fully vaccinated in order to return to campus next fall.
"The anti-covid vaccine will be added to the vaccinations required for frequency," said president JonathanHolloway.
Rutgers, one of the largest universities in America with over 65,000 students and three campuses, is the first to request the coronavirus vaccine as a condition for returning to attend.
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