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More campuses under extreme weather
Yesterday I wrote about two Canadian campuses endangered by fires. Climate change played some role in intensifying those conflagrations.
Today I offer a related story. This post will be relatively brief, as I’m with my wife, back in a hospital again.
Let me note a group of American colleges and universities threatened by another type of extreme weather. These are institutions in southern California, in the way of tropical cyclone/hurricane (now post-tropical cyclone) Hilary.
How are those institutions responding? At Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman notes some examples:
Palomar College, a two-year institution north of San Diego, said that “due to a state of emergency,” it had canceled classes at all of its locations on Monday. Sunday afternoon, California State University, Los Angeles, updated its social media pages to say that it, too, would cancel classes and ask employees to work from home Monday.
Sunday night, the San Diego Community College District said all of its campuses and facilities would be closed today, due to the “lingering effects” of the storm.
San Diego State University said in a communiqué to students and employees that it would shift to virtual instruction and telework for “all employees who are able to do so.”
