The Community College of Rhode Island will be giving $200 to each student who is vaccinated by August 18.
Per the Office of Postsecondary Education and Commissioner Shannon Gilkey, all college students in the state must be vaccinated or have an appropriate exemption prior to returning to campus in the fall. According to Amy Kempe, director of marketing and communications at CCRI, the college anticipates using $2 million in COVID relief funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund to support the incentive.
All CCRI students, regardless of when they received the vaccine, will be eligible for the $200 if the proper documentation is uploaded to the school's health portal by August 18. Students who have a medical or religious vaccine exemption are not eligible. If students do not upload their vaccination record or if their exemption request isn't approved by the start of their first in-person class, the student will be dropped from all in-person classes.
In order to be fully vaccinated, students must receive their final dose no later than 14 days before they return to campus. CCRI will be hosting free vaccine clinics at Open Enrollment Day on August 10 from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Knight Campus. The clinic will be administering both the two-dose Pfizer vaccine and the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
For more information on uploading proof of vaccine, visit https://ccri.edu/covid-19/vaccinepolicy.html
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