With snow in the forecast this winter, ETSU administration might be forced to cancel classes, giving students a much-needed break.
When inclement weather threatens to cancel classes, ETSU administration has a procedure it follows, said Dr. Wayne Andrews, vice president for administration.
The Department of Public Safety and the Physical Plant will monitor the weather conditions, contact local, county and state public safety officials and check local roads for hazardous driving conditions.
They will also check campus roads as well as walkways and parking lots.
The Physical Plant then contacts Andrews, who calls President Stanton and advises him as to whether classes should be canceled.
Andrews said the administration realizes that the majority of students commute to campus.
With only 2,000 students residing on campus, that leaves a lot of students, as well as 2,000 faculty and staff, who have to drive to campus. “We try to be sensitive to that,” he said.
If classes are not canceled, but some students live in places that could make it potentially dangerous to get to campus, Andrews advises them to use their own judgment as to whether they should stay home or not.
According to section 28 of the Personnel Policies and Procedures, “Students are responsible for any academic work that they miss as a result of inclement weather.
It is the individual student’s responsibility to take the initiative in making up any missed work and it is the faculty’s responsibility to provide students a reasonable opportunity to make up missed work.”
To find out if classes are canceled, students can view the ETSU home page, call the campus switchboard or tune into local radio and TV stations.
The campus radio station, WETS-FM (89.5 FM), will announce cancellation information at least every 30 minutes.
Unless otherwise stated in the announcements, all scheduled campus activities are also cancelled when ETSU closes for snow.

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