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COVID-19 at Christian colleges

John Fea   |  August 31, 2021

With the Delta variant moving rapidly through the campus of Liberty University and Cedarville University, we thought we would check-in on some other Christian colleges and universities to see how things are going. (NOTE: Some of these campuses started classes yesterday). Most of these schools do not publish vaccination rates on campus. I would be happy to update this list if an official from one of these schools contacts me with their vaccination rates. For now, we have only found vaccination rates for Messiah, John Brown, Wheaton, and Baylor.

Here is the state of COVID-19 at some Christian colleges:

Messiah University (as of August 30): 13 active cases. 71% vaccination rate.

Liberty University (as of August 25): 159 active cases and nearly 500 in quarantine. Liberty does not publish its vaccination rate.

Cedarville University (as of August 29): 424 active cases (11.21% of student body). Cedarville does not publish its vaccination rate.

John Brown University (as of August 26): 6 active cases. 13 students in quarantine. 70% of faculty vaccinated. 43.6 of the student body vaccinated.

Wheaton College (as of August 30): 6 students in quarantine. 75% vaccination rate among students. 80% vaccination rate among employees.

Calvin University: No daily data.

Gordon College (week of August 23): 7 active cases. Gordon does not publish its vaccination rate.

Westmont College (as of August 26): No active cases. Westmont does not publish its vaccination rate.

BIOLA University (as of August 27): 5 active cases. BIOLA does not publish its vaccination rate.

Eastern University (as of August 30): 2 active cases. Eastern does not publish its vaccination rate.

Grove City College (as of August 29): 20 active cases. Grove City does not publish its vaccination rate.

Taylor University: As far as I can tell, Taylor does not yet have a COVID dashboard.

Indiana Wesleyan University: COVID dashboard is not updated.

Bethel University-MN (as of August 29): 7 active cases. Bethel does not publish its vaccination rate.

Seattle Pacific University (as of August 30): 41 active cases. Seattle Pacific does not publish its vaccination rate.

Geneva College (as of August 26): 8 active cases. Geneva does not publish its vaccination rate.

Covenant College (as of August 27): 9 active cases. 21 students and employees in quarantine. Covenant does not publish its vaccination rate.

Abilene Christian University (as of August 30): 8 active cases. 20 students and employees in quarantine. 66.7% of active cases are unvaccinated.

Asbury University (as of August 26): 2 active cases in last 7 days. 22 students and employees in quarantine. Asbury does not publish its vaccination rate.

Baylor University (as of August 30): 72 active cases in the last 7 days. 70.7% vaccination rate.

Dallas Baptist University (as of August 27): 20 active cases. Dallas Baptist does not publish its vaccination rate.

Evangel University (as of August 27): 5 active cases. Evangel does not publish its vaccination rate.

George Fox University (as of August 30): 1 active case. George Fox does not publish its vaccination rate.

Houston Baptist University does not have a dashboard yet.

Palm Beach Atlantic University (as of August 27): 28 active cases. Palm Beach Atlantic does not publish its vaccination rate.

Samford University (as of August 26): 2 active cases. Samford does not publish its vaccination rate.

Whitworth University (as of August 28): COVID-19 dashboard is not public.

UPDATE: I recently changed the post to reflect new stats for John Brown University in Siloam Spring, Arkansas. I originally had the statistics for Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: Cedarville University, Christian colleges, COVID-19, John Brown University, Liberty University, vaccines

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