ASU To Require Employee Vaccinations

TEMPE, AZ — After Arizona University announced Friday that it would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8, officials with Arizona State University confirmed it would do the same.

ASU confirmed that it would also comply with President Biden's executive order requiring institutions that contract with the federal government to ensure all of their employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

"We will comply, like we do with all laws and regulations," an ASU spokesperson told Patch via email.

"ASU receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding through grants and contracts every year. Continued receipt of these funds is essential to ASU’s mission as a comprehensive public research university as well as to the Arizona economy," the spokesperson said. "Under the recent executive order issued by President Biden requiring all employees of federal contractors to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, ASU is required to ensure that every university employee by December 8 either shows proof that they were vaccinated for COVID-19 or requested an accommodation on medical or religious grounds."