The University of Portland announced Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, that it will require COVID-19 booster shots for students, staff and faculty. {div id=”highlighter--hover-tools” style=”display: none;”} {/div}

PORTLAND — The University of Portland announced Tuesday, Jan. 4, that it will require COVID-19 booster shots for students, staff and faculty.

The Portland university joins other schools that have made the shift to requiring boosters in the past few weeks including the University of Oregon, Oregon State University and Southern Oregon University.

Other private institutions such as Willamette University, Lewis & Clark College and Pacific University have booster requirements.

Along with the booster requirement, the University of Portland will also start the first week of its new term online as an additional precaution against COVID-19 spread.

Eastern Oregon University officials have not instituted COVID-19 booster shot requirements.

“Our current vaccination requirement does not include boosters,” Tim Seydel, EOU’s vice president for university advancement, said Tuesday, Jan. 4. “We are evaluating the use of boosters and reviewing recommendations from the CDC, OHA and public health officials.”

The school instituted a vaccination mandate in October that requires all of EOU’s on-campus staff and students to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or to have an approved exemption.