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Where to tune in for weather-related closings

10:23 a.m., Dec. 4, 2003--When severe weather strikes the Delaware Valley, UD employees and students have several options to find out if there are late openings, early closings or cancellations at the University.

The University Policy and Procedures Manual has a section dealing with personal safety considerations for faculty and students. Please note the policy, which is reprinted here:

Faculty and students are not expected to take unnecessary risks to meet their teaching and learning obligations due to inclement weather. When classes have not been canceled, it is a matter of personal judgment whether traveling to campus is hazardous. Faculty should notify their departmental offices when weather precludes them from meeting their teaching obligations; similarly, students should notify their professors when inclement weather precludes them from class attendance. In such cases, students should be allowed to make up missed class time and, whenever possible, canceled classes should be rescheduled.

Information on closings or late opening will be available from:

• UDaily;
• UD’s home page;
• Local radio and TV stations (listed below);
• Student voice-mailboxes;
• The University's main phone number, 831-2000; and
• UD1-HENS, under the listing of the day's events.

If the closing takes place during normal working hours, each department also will be contacted by Human Resources using a telephone tree.

Members of the campus community are asked to not call the Department of Public Safety so that telephone lines there can remain open for emergency calls.

According to Vice President for Administration Maxine Colm, the University's policy is to remain open whenever possible during extreme weather conditions.

If there is no formal announcement of closing, late opening or early dismissal, employees who decide for personal reasons not to report or to leave early must take vacation time or leave without pay.

Employees in essential positions are required to report to work during extreme weather conditions. These employees will be designated by their directors in Dining Services, Facilities Management, Residential and Conference Facilities, Student Health Services, Public Safety and Information Technologies.

For more information on the extreme weather policy, employees should contact their supervisors.

Radio stations in the Wilmington/Newark vicinity advised of emergency closing bulletins by the University include:

• WVUD-91.3 FM, campus;
• WSTW-93.7 FM, Wilmington;
• WJBR-99.5 FM Wilmington;
• KYW-1060 AM, Philadelphia;
• WDEL-1150 AM, Wilmington;
• WJBR-1290 AM, Wilmington; and
• WILM-1450 AM, Wilmington.

In southern Delaware and adjacent areas in Maryland, the following radio stations are notified:

• WSCL-89.5 FM, Salisbury, Md.;
• WZBH-93.5 FM, Georgetown;
• WGMD-92.7 FM, Rehoboth Beach;
• WDSD-92.9 FM, Dover;
• WRDX-94.7 FM, Dover;
• WJNE-95.3 FM, Georgetown;
• WAFL-97.7 FM, Milford;
• WRBG-98.5 FM, Salisbury, Md.;
• WJYN-103.5 FM, Georgetown;
• WXCY-103.7 FM, Havre De Grace, Md.;
• WOCQ-103.9 FM, Georgetown;
• WLVW-105.5 FM, Salisbury, Md.;
• WQHQ-104.7 FM, Salisbury, Md.;
• WJWL-900 AM, Georgetown;
• WYUS-930 AM, Milford;
• WJWK-1280 AM, Georgetown; and
• WDOV-1410 AM, Dover.

The following local television stations also will notified of emergency closings:

• KYW-TV, channel 3, Philadelphia;
• NBC-TV, channel 10. Philadelphia;
• WBOC-TV, channel 16, Salisbury, Md.; and
• WMDT-TV, channel 47, Salisbury, Md.

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