Delayed opening
UD to open at noon, March 4
Editor's note: This article was updated at 11:40 a.m., March 4, 2015.
4:59 a.m., March 4, 2015--University of Delaware locations in New Castle County will be closed from 5 a.m.-noon, Wednesday, March 4, because of icy conditions. Essential personnel should report to work.
All classes scheduled before noon, March 4, on the Newark campus and at UD locations in New Castle County will not meet. Dining halls will operate on their normal schedule.
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The University's Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes is operating on its normal schedule.
UD Facilities staff are at work treating and clearing campus parking lots and sidewalks.
Members of the community are reminded to take care when traveling today.
Schedule updates
Information about any closings or schedule changes will be posted on this page. Please check back for updates. To submit information for inclusion in this list, please send email to publicaffairs@udel.edu.
• UD and Unicity bus routes will begin operating at 11:30 a.m., March 4.
• The Barnes and Noble UD Bookstore is operating on its normal schedule March 4, with the cafe opening at 8 a.m. and the bookstore opening at 9 a.m.
• The Parkinson's Disease: Coping with Depression and Anxiety symposium scheduled for March 5 has been postponed to Thursday, March 12. It will be held from 12:30-4:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Health Sciences Complex on UD's Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. Call 302- 831-3195 or go to this website to RSVP.
• The presentation by Earl Lewis, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, scheduled March 5 as part of the University of Delaware’s Thought Leader Speaker Series, has been postponed due to the pending winter storm.
Personal safety
Safety is UD's highest priority. Faculty, staff and students should not put themselves at risk, and employees who expect difficulty traveling should contact their supervisors.
Faculty members unable to hold class should notify their departmental offices, and students unable to attend class should contact their professors. In such cases, UD policy states that students should be allowed to make up missed class time and canceled classes should be rescheduled when possible.
The University's policy is reprinted below:
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.