All current full-time and part-time East Central Community College students who are vaccinated for COVID-19 or who get vaccinated by October 1, 2021, will be eligible to receive a $50* incentive!
Qualifying students will also be entered into a drawing in October for several large prizes*. The prizes will be announced via email in the coming days.
Only students enrolled in regular (non-dual) credit course(s) for the Fall 2021 semester are eligible for the incentives.
Those eligible students who have already been vaccinated can submit proof of vaccination (a photo or PDF of the front of their COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card) through the campus portal myEC. Log into myEC, then click on the Student tab, then click on Request Forms, and then follow the instructions under COVID-19 Vaccine Verification for Students.
To be eligible for the cash incentive and prize drawings, students must submit proof of vaccination on myEC no later than Noon on Friday, October 1, 2021.
For those students who have yet to be vaccinated, the college will host two free vaccination clinics sponsored by Rush Health Systems. Rush personnel will be on campus from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 18, to administer first dose vaccines and again from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 8, to administer the second dose. Rush will be offering the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccination clinics will be in the Cross Hall parking lot in front of Founders Gym and will be walk-up and drive-thru.
As both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mississippi State Department of Health emphasize, vaccination is the most important and readily available tool to protect yourself and those around you from COVID-19. While consistent and correct mask use is vital to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, vaccination remains the primary public health prevention strategy to end transmission of COVID-19.
The desire would be for as many students and employees as possible to be vaccinated to hopefully prevent spread of the disease on campus and in the local communities. The more members of the campus community who get vaccinated, the better chance East Central Community College has at having a normal fall semester.
*HEERF American Rescue Plan Funds
