<p>but i am curious. do colleges have snow days? or inclimant weather days? </p>
<p>just wondering bc i have had 2 (possibly three!!!) snow days this week</p>
<p>I really doubt they do unless there is a bad enough storm.</p>
<p>yes but there has to be a lot of snow a foot+ at my local college maybe a lil less</p>
<p>I've heard in the past my school has cancelled classes due to really bad rain that caused mudslides and closed roads, though that hasn't hapened yet this year.</p>
<p>Schools in the south do, I know. That's mostly because it only snows every like 5 or 6 years here and we have to enjoy it because it'll be a long time before it snows again. (the last time it snowed here I was a freshman in hs and now I'm soph in college and it hasn't snowed yet this winter)</p>
<p>I asked my friend this yesterday, at his college in MD it varies by profesor, they send out emails or post it. I think it depends where you go, and the severity of the snow. It probably takes a lot more snow to cancel a university than a high school, at least in the north.</p>
<p>It was I believe -45 degrees C with the windchill yesterday and they didnt cancel it!</p>
<p>Hehe, last Thursday we had a SNOW DAY! but alas there was no snow, we were suppposed to get a bit. Folks down here can't drive in the ice/snow so everything shuts down :)</p>
<p>we were out for a hurricane at the beginning of fall semester this year. It's doubtful the school will cancel classes, but individual professors might. Afterall, they have to drive to school.</p>
<p>My school had a snow day last semester. I was fortunate enough to be sick when the blizzard came.</p>
<p>my brother went to umass- amherst his freshman year and had a couple of days where they cancelled classes because there was too much snow to get around. even at tcnj, where my other brother went they had some classes cancelled because of snow/ice</p>
<p>Usually cancellations of classes for weather are on a by professor basis as it primarily depends on whether the prof can get to school since most students live on campus and can easily walk from their dorms to the school.
The only time we've ever had an emergency cancellation of ALL classes was when we had a bomb-threat, so the entire campus locked down and all classes were cancelled for the day.</p>
<p>^^^I agree most classes are cancelled individually by professors and rarely by the entire university. None of mine have been cancelled yet but campus staff have done a great job of clearing snow this year--it snowed 2" last night but i could barely tell by walking the sidewalks. </p>
<p>Last year there was a tornado over at UIowa and they cancelled class for the Friday (it happened a Thursday night) and it was the first time classes had been cancelled university-wide since like the 70s</p>
<p>The most recent one at Penn State was two years ago and it was the first time in 10 years, they do ocassionally cancel morning classes though. The day they actually canceled classes was right after a canning weekend (money collection for THON) which was also canceled.</p>
<p>Hmm....I don't think my school has actually closed the whole school for snow in years. They are pretty quick with shoveling the sidewalks and whatnot. They have on occasion canceled all classes before 10am or all classes after 4pm, something like that, when there is bad weather. My high school is approximately in the same weather region and we usually used all of our 5 snow days per year, and had lots of delayed openings as well.</p>
<p>My school closed for one day a few weeks ago due to slippery roads.</p>
<p>there is really no point of having snow days in college. it is not like in high school where you can get away with things. in college, it just pushes thing a day back and they still continue with the material.</p>
<p>We've had a few this semester. We had two on Nov 30-Dec 1, when we got like a foot of snow overnight. And we had half of one the Fri before MLK day (all classes after noon were cancelled, but the morning teachers didn't come anyway). We had all classes and events after 5pm cancelled last Wed, as well, because apparently the roads were icy. But we had school the next day, when it was snowing... And we had school the Tues after MLK day, even though there was like a foot of solid ice over everything, including almost every path, and one of the deans slipped and had to go to the hospital, and OK was declared to be in a state of emergency. If anyone has seen the facebook group of students protesting days when school is not closed and should be, that was started at my school because of that day. </p>
<p>Oh, and my school is in Oklahoma, where there is not supposed to be snow.</p>
<p>Tulane does.</p>
<p>We rarely have snow days at UB. The last snow day we had was in October, when a freak snowstorm dumped 30 inches of wet snow on the county, toppled decades-old trees, and caused week long power outages. School was closed for four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.</p>