Auburn University giving $1,000 scholarships, prime parking and other prizes to fully-vaccinated stu
Auburn University is giving away scholarships, unlimited meal plan upgrades, priority class registration and other perks to encourage students to get the Covid-19 vaccine.
The Alabama school announced the program this week, as the state’s vaccination rate lags behind the rest of the United States.
Only 34.2% of Alabama residents are fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to 49.3% of the United States’ population.
LONG BEACH, CA - JULY 06: The city of Long Beach's Department of Health & Human Services holds an evening COVID-19 vaccination clinic Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus. on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 in Long Beach, CA. Doses of the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines are available. The site is open Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. until otherwise announced. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Francine Orr/The Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesFully-vaccinated students attending Auburn in the fall can enter a drawing and there will also be prizes for the campus organizations with the most vaccinated members, according to a post on the school’s website.
One of the top prizes is an A-zone parking pass for the semester, which are usually for school employees. Students could also win $1,000 scholarships, VIP graduation parking passes and a chance to have lunch with Auburn President Jay Gogue.
Winners will have to show proof that they’ve gotten two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to claim their prizes, the school’s website said.
More than 30,000 students were enrolled at Auburn last year.
The University of Alabama is offering every vaccinated student $20 in Bama Cash that can be spent at restaurants, stores and other locations around Tuscaloosa.
A nurse administers a measles vaccine to a teenager in the school of Lapaivka village near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 21, 2019. - The mobile brigade, which consists of two pediatricians and a nurse, arrived to the Lapaivka village as part of the health ministry's special operation in this region, leading in terms of registered measles cases. A measles epidemic is still not declared in Ukraine, though in 2018 the country recorded highest number of measles cases in European region. Since the start of 2019, around 20,000 people in Ukraine have contracted this highly contagious viral disease. Nine people, including two children, have died of measles in Ukraine this year. (Photo by Yuri DYACHYSHYN / AFP) (Photo credit should read YURI DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images) YURI DYACHYSHYN/AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesStudents, faculty and staff are not required to have the Covid-19 vaccine under state law, and the university does not have records of how many have been vaccinated.
More than 100 US colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated before they return to school next semester.
Last week, a federal judge preliminarily upheld Indiana University’s vaccine requirement after a group of students filed a lawsuit.
Auburn plans to “offer a traditional in-person experience for the fall 2021,” its website said.
It will require everyone to wear masks in classrooms and instructional labs, public transportation, health care settings and other marked locations.
Anyone who is not fully vaccinated will be required to wear a mask at all indoor university facilities unless they are eating.
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