<p>INDIANAPOLIS &mdash; Indiana’s governor says he won’t block Indiana University’s plans to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/in-state-wire-indiana-university-indiana-coronavirus-pandemic-education-d3f4a9d9cf8285e0377839c67be9bf92">require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations</a> for all students and employees despite many state officials arguing against that policy.</p>
<p>IU said last week <a href="https://apnews.com/article/in-state-wire-indiana-university-indiana-coronavirus-pandemic-education-d9b2156c4ea0ae6bbeaa298d7c601c0e">it was reviewing</a> its “process for verifying the requirement” after the state attorney general issued a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/in-state-wire-indiana-coronavirus-pandemic-education-health-b0df83b59c12689dffe17fc346f00caa">non-binding opinion that the policy was illegal</a> under a new state law banning the state or local governments from requiring vaccine passports. </p>
<p>Nearly 20 Republican Indiana House members sent a letter to the governor <a href="https://apnews.com/article/indiana-university-indiana-business-coronavirus-pandemic-education-a7f6e02c715ea4ac43106a6c4fd1badd">asking him to prohibit any state university</a> from mandating vaccines that don’t have full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. </p>
<p>Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a weekend interview that he believed “this will work its way out.”</p>
<p>“There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” Holcomb <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPh4UOAfCH8">told WTHR</a> on Sunday. “The conversations are ongoing right now. But I don’t plan on doing an executive order.”</p>
<p>An IU spokesman didn’t immediately reply to a request for a response to Holcomb’s comments. IU officials have defended the vaccine requirement as a way to safely resume full in-person classes and events on all of its campuses across the state for the fall semester.</p>