11 Mount Royal University students deregistered for not declaring vaccination status
CBC
Nearly a dozen Mount Royal University Students have been deregistered from classes by administration after refusing to say if they have had their COVID-19 shot.
MRU's policy is that anyone — student, staff or visitor — attending campus for any reason requires proof of vaccination or a negative rapid test result.
The university says 22 students enrolled for in-person classes were initially deregistered last month after refusing to declare their vaccination status. But when given a second chance, half of those students did declare.
"So the final tally is 11 students who remain deregistered," said MRU in an email.
One MRU student, whom CBC news has agreed not to name because she fears academic retribution, is enrolled in all online classes. She was also threatened with deregistration for weeks last month after refusing to declare her immunization status.
"They just kept resorting to saying that the public health order requires them to do so, but nowhere in the order does it say you need to declare if you're vaccinated or not," she said.
"A vaccinated or unvaccinated person could choose to show a rapid test result, too, according to the public health order. But I've been getting these emails saying that if I do not declare my status, then I will be deregistered from my courses."