- One-Hour Late Opening. All classes before 9 a.m. are cancelled. Students report to their regularly scheduled 9 a.m. classes on MWF and 9:30 a.m. classes on T/Th. All offices open as soon as possible but no later than 9 a.m.
- Two-Hour Late Opening. All classes before 10 a.m. are cancelled. Students report to their regularly scheduled 10 a.m. classes on MWF and 11 a.m. classes on T/Th. All offices open as soon as possible but no later than 10 a.m.
Cancellation of evening classes: All classes on the main campus that begin at 5 p.m. and after.
Activities, events or individual facilities. May be closed or cancelled even when the College is open. Individual events may take place even when classes are cancelled.
Status may change. For example, a one-hour delay may later change to a two-hour or more delay or change to a closing. Late afternoon and evening classes may be cancelled even if the College has been open all day.
Faculty and Staff: For complete information on reporting, see the Albright College weather policy on the Albright Intranet or in the Employee Handbook.
How to Find Out What’s Happening
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Check your College voice mail from campus or home.
In the event of snow closings, delays or other emergencies, a special broadcast message will be posted on the College Voice Mail System. Your Albright voice mail box must be activated to receive these messages!
- From your campus phone, call Albright voice mail at x7898 to check for messages.
- From off-campus, dial the Albright voice mail system at 610-921-7898. Press * (star) and enter your ID (your extension number) followed by # and your password and listen to the broadcast message.
- Accelerated Degree Program (ADP) locations, call the ADP Office at 1-888-253-8851 for continuously updated information about closings in the eight ADP locations.
2. Call the Albright Hot Line: x7800 or 610-921-7800
School closing and emergency information is posted on the Hot Line and updated as necessary. Because of volume of calls, please be patient if you cannot get through immediately.
3. Check the Albright web site: www.albright.edu
4. Call the Albright Switchboard: 610-921-2381
To avoid overloading the switchboard and/or Department of Public Safety when the switchboard is closed, please use your voice mail or the Hot Line first.
Weather announcements are also called into local radio and TV stations. Please do not rely on this as your first source of information. From the time the media are notified and the announcement is played may be 30 minutes or more – and media do not always get the information right!
Reading: www.wfmz.com; www.readingeagle.com; or www.wrfy.com, WEEU (830 AM); Y102 (102 FM); WRAW (1340 AM); WIOV (105 FM)
Allentown: WFMZ, Ch. 69 News; B104 (104 FM); WLEV (100.7 FM); WCTO (Cat Country 96 FM); WEST (1400 AM); WODE (99.9 FM “The Hawk”)
Boyertown: WFKB (107.5 FM)
Harrisburg: UPN 15, WHP Ch. 21 CBS; WITF Ch. 33; WITF (89.5 FM); WHP 580 AM; WRVV (97.3 FM) “The River”; BOB (94.9 AM); KISS (99.3 FM)
Lancaster: WGAL (Ch. 8); WLAN (97 FM); WROZ (101 FM) “The Rose”; WIOV (105.1 FM)
Philadelphia: KYW Radio (1060 AM)-listen for #1481; KYW TV 3; WCAU NBC 10
Rev. 02/2008
