Classes cancelled tomorrow due to storm -- why ???

Absolutely. I am within 15 miles of the campus. The sun was out all day today and roads are super clean and highways were dry. Yes, parking will be all screwed up, but there is a multi deck car garage on campus too.

I work in administration in education and can understand the outright cancellation as opposed to a delayed start. Other posters already mentioned the difficulties of getting staff to campus and the parking issues. The safety of your employees and students is paramount. The City of Hoboken might also have requested that Stevens consider not having class in order to facilitate clean up after the storm. Often these decisions have to be made 12 to 18 hours in advance, and there’s no way to predict how quickly the city will respond with snow removal, or if the high temperature will hit 40 instead of the predicted 35 degrees. Lastly, a delayed start after an epic snowstorm would have been an administrative nightmare with a hodgepodge of classes cancelled or not cancelled, and probably very low student attendance. An outright ‘all classes cancelled’ is very clean way of handling an uncertain situation, leaving your students and employees no doubt about whether or not to risk travel.

Parking was probably taken into consideration as well. There are many students and instructors who commute. All of the public parking garages were filled. Although Washington St. was plowed on Sunday, most of the side streets still had mountains of snow on either side. There was literally no where to park.