Massachusetts community colleges are requiring vaccines

A few weeks into an academic year that’s already included high numbers of coronavirus cases at Massachusetts colleges, the state’s 15 community colleges said Monday they’ll require students and employees to be vaccinated by January. The state’s community colleges join more than two dozen private colleges in Massachusetts that said this summer they’d require students and employees to be vaccinated for the fall semester. But until now, public schools have largely stayed away from that requirement. Community…