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President Steve Bahls signed the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Challenge on behalf of 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@.
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President Bahls launched the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Strong task force in spring 2020 and charged the team with developing a plan to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus. The task force shared a comprehensive plan to address the educational, residential, social and health needs of the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ community.
The college also adopted its own #VikingsTakeCare campaign through the 2020-2021 academic year to encourage COVID-19-concious behavior among students, faculty and staff.
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“We know our students want to get back to normal, and this is an important step in that process.”
In April, the college hosted a vaccination clinic in partnership with Community Health Care and administered neary 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to students, faculty, staff and community members.
Preliminary survey results indicate that 87% of the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ student population to respond to the survey were fully vaccinated by May 23, 2021. An additional 5.7% were partially vaccinated at the time of the survey.