It’s that time of the year when the leaves are changing and the temperatures are beginning to drop. That means we may start to see winter weather in the coming weeks. Snow brings the possibility of campus closures, late starts, and early dismissals. To help our students, faculty, and staff be prepared, we’ve outlined CU Denver’s protocols for inclement weather below.
How to stay up to date on weather-related closures or delays:
If weather causes a campus closure, delayed start, or early dismissal, you will receive a text message and/or email notification, if you have emergency alerts set up on your notifications settings. To make sure you’re signed up for emergency alerts, visit the instructions for doing so on the CU Denver Emergency Management & Campus Safety website.
For weather updates, you can also call 1-877-556-3637, go to www.ahec.edu, or visit CU Denver’s X and other social media channels after 5:30 a.m. on the day in question.
Although the Auraria Campus has protocols in place to monitor and prepare for inclement weather, we encourage our campus community to keep an eye on the local weather forecast should there be inclement weather.
If weather conditions necessitate a delayed start on CU Denver’s campus:
- If an in-person class is scheduled to begin before the delayed start time of campus, it is cancelled.
- There is no institutional policy about rescheduling a class cancelled for inclement weather. If a faculty member would like to reschedule a class, the faculty member should discuss it with their department chair.
- Students should contact their faculty members with questions regarding rescheduled classes.
If weather conditions necessitate an early dismissal from the Denver campus:
- If a class is scheduled to begin after early dismissal time, it is cancelled.
- If a class straddles dismissal time, it is cancelled completely. For example, if campus is closing at 2 p.m., a class that runs from 1 to 3 p.m. is cancelled.
Attendance policies during a CU Denver campus closure:
- Any mandatory attendance policies for specific classes are suspended if campus is closed. Faculty should not require students to attend an in-person class when campus is closed due to inclement weather.
- Essential personnel (who are already pre-identified by their departments, such as facilities staff) must report in person. Classified employees and university staff who are part of Central Services and Administration (CS&A) units that support both CU Denver and CU Anschutz should check with their supervisors.
- Staff who work on the Denver campus do not need to report to campus. While they are not expected to work, they may choose to do so remotely.
- Staff who have a remote work or placement agreement in place, where weather is not impacting their ability to work, may choose to work in accordance with their remote work agreement.
- A campus closure does not mean students, faculty, or staff are unaccountable for any classroom content or work duties that would have occurred on the closure day but, instead, should plan to fulfill those obligations on a different day.