School cancelation process
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Doug Goodwon, Staff Writer
January 23, 2012
Filed under News, Top Stories
The weather people on the news are not the only ones that have to try and predict the weather. The decision to cancel classes comes down to one person, Mary Elizabeth Stivers, provost and vice president of academic affairs.
Stivers said, “For day classes, I make the decision by 5:30 a.m. and for night classes I make that decision by 3 p.m.
The reason the day classes are decided so early is for primarily the nursing students that have clinical at 7 a.m. Not to mention the facility and students that drive an hour or more to get to Grand View. After it is decided, someone has to get it on the web and call all the television stations and radio stations.
Stivers works with Kim Butler, director of building and grounds, to determine not just the current weather, but the weather predictions and if the Grand View can keep up with clearing the sidewalks and parking lots.
Stivers said, one of the hard parts about canceling classes is that the lab classes, clinical, studio, they have lost a week’s worth of work and hard to make up.
“It’s really about people’s safety,” Stivers said.
Daytime classes and evening classes are decided separately. This is so that if the day classes are canceled, but the weather clears up and roads are cleared, then evening classes can be held.
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