Today is an absolutely abysmal weather day on campus: 36 degrees and we’ve alternated between a steady rain and a needle-fine mist most of the day. We are fortunate it isn’t a few degrees colder, because then we would be in a real pickle. Which brings me to today’s topic: how winter weather alerts are issued.
Faculty, staff, and students will be informed of any weather-related campus closings and delays by numerous means, including email, text message, voicemail, and banners at the top of the main Wake Forest website (wfu.edu). Families can also see a banner message on parents.wfu.edu if we have delays or closings.
You may also be wondering what your student should do if winter weather prevents them from getting back to campus for the first day of classes? If emergency weather conditions prevent your Deac from returning to campus for the first day of classes, your student should contact their spring semester professors directly to let them know of their delay.
Residential students (i.e., living in University housing) can notify the Office of Residence Life and Housing of a delay via their late arrival formifthey need to check-in and get keys to a new room they did not occupy in the fall semester. If a student is simply returning to the same room they occupied in the fall, there is no need to notify Residence Life and Housing of a travel delay.
I am not a fan of winter weather (my late mother affectionately nicknamed me a “Snow Crab”), so I hope we don’t have much of it this year. But I know many of our students love it.
