I went to one of my classes today and on the door was a sign that said “all (insert professors name here) classes are canceled today. Also no office hours today.” Normally this wouldn’t bother me, because usually professors email us if class is canceled. I feel bad for commuters who drove to class only to find out it’s canceled for the day. Again, anyone ever experience this before. Not a big deal, just wondering.
It sucks when it happens in community college. I think at the local college if it’s 15 min past starting time with no information you can just leave. It has happened to me before.
I’ve never had it happen, but I would assume it must’ve been an emergency or else they would’ve planned in advance to send an email.
As a professor, I (and my colleagues) try to notify the class when class is cancelled, sometimes even putting it on the course syllabus (in the case of a conference or something). But as you know, “stuff happens.” Presumably the prof had a last minute emergency - car trouble or illness? - and was only able to call into work. At least they put up a notice! I had a situation a couple of years ago where my car broke down and the department secretary was out sick, so the students ended up sitting there waiting. 
My D has had it happen (prof’s car broke down on the way to the college so he called the office and someone put a note on the classroom door). Usually a prof. will send an email out to the class in advance but sometimes unexpected things come up. That’s life.
Update: The professor showed up to the next class saying he has been sick for a while. A while to me is more than two days… Anyways… He then wanted to give us an exam even though he didn’t teach us everything because of his absense. Luckily, he moved the exam until after Spring Break.
Yes, it happens. In grad school, too. Life happens.
Yup. My professor said he was going to have lecture despite knowing that few students would attend given the approaching Thanksgiving holiday. He also stated that students treat the week of Thanksgiving as sort of a “spring break” in that students miss Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Anyway, I get to class on Tuesday and nobody is there. The TA was there proctoring an exam for two students that missed an exam, but the professor is nowhere to be found. I appreciated that the TA was there and told me that the professor had left town, but I didn’t really understand why the professor insisted that there would be lecture if he was going to leave anyway 
It also didn’t help that this was an 8AM class. However, I recently learned that if the professor is 15 minutes late, the class is automatically cancelled, so at least that would save me from waiting around in class for an hour hoping the professor shows up.
Yes, my calc prof had personal problems a few times. My French prof had car trouble. Etc.