{"id":61142,"date":"2019-01-22T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=61142"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T22:28:32","slug":"winter-weather-closes-uccs-on-first-day-of-spring-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=61142","title":{"rendered":"Winter weather closes UCCS on first day of spring semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61147\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain lion statue with snow\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blizzard conditions north of campus, multiple road closures and difficult travel conditions in Colorado Springs led UCCS to cancel classes and activities Jan. 22. Today was the first scheduled day of the 2019 spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>All day and night classes and activities for Jan. 22, including tonight&#8217;s ChitChat event by the Galleries of Contemporary Art at the Ent Center for the Arts, are cancelled. The lockdown drills scheduled today for University Hall and Columbine Hall will be postponed to a later date.<\/p>\n<p>On-campus students living in the residence halls will have access to the dining facilities in The Lodge and Roaring Fork Dining Hall during normal operating hours. All other dining areas and buildings will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>For campus weather closures,\u00a0UCCS uses multiple ways to communicate with students and employees through UCCS Alerts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Text messages \u2013 Make sure your number is registered with UCCS Alerts to receive emergency communications. Students are automatically enrolled with their contact information in their MyUCCS portal. Employees and parents can register as well through <a href=\"http:\/\/rave.uccs.edu\/\">rave.uccs.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Email \u2013 All students and employees are registered to receive emergency communications to their UCCS email accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Website \u2013 Weather impacts are posted to the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/\">uccs.edu<\/a> page, <a href=\"http:\/\/alerts.uccs.edu\/\">alerts.uccs.edu<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashalertcs.net\/closures-time.html?alert=1\">FlashAlerts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Social media \u2013 UCCS Alerts communication is posted to the Facebook and Twitter pages for UCCS Emergency Management, UCCS Police and the main UCCS account.<\/li>\n<li>Traditional media \u2013 During weather events, traditional broadcast and print media rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashalertcs.net\/closures-time.html?alert=1\">FlashAlerts<\/a> for updated information on closures, and will also share that information.<\/li>\n<li>Phone \u2013 UCCS Police maintain a closure number at (719) 255-3346. People can call that number to learn if the campus is open, on a modified schedule or closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Blizzard conditions north of campus, multiple road closures and difficult travel conditions in Colorado Springs led UCCS to cancel classes and activities Jan. 22. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=61142\" title=\"Winter weather closes UCCS on first day of spring semester\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":61147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[44,43,143],"class_list":["post-61142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-department-of-public-safety","tag-facilities-services"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/statue-snow.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-fUa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61249,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61142\/revisions\/61249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}