UC Closing at 2 p.m. Today (Thursday, Jan. 20)

Due to inclement weather and road conditions, the University of Cincinnati will close for the remainder of the day at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20.

Classes scheduled at or after 2 p.m., including evening classes, are canceled, and all offices -- with the exception of those noted in the UC emergency closing policy (University Rule 30-16-01) -- will be closed beginning at 2 p.m. This announcement covers all campuses of the university, including Raymond Walters College in Blue Ash, and Clermont College in Batavia.

The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library (HSL) also will be closing at 2 p.m. today. All electronic resources, including many textbooks, are available through the Health Sciences Library’s website. Computers are available for first- and second-year medical students in the path labs, and for all medical students in the HSL Computer Classroom  in MSB E602.  All students have access to the computers and study space in the study rooms.

The following units never close under any circumstances: College of Medicine, University Police, Office of Residence Life/Housing units, utility plants, emergency maintenance operations, any research unit where the integrity of the research must be preserved, and service units that routinely operate on a seven day per week, twenty-four hour per day service schedule. 

The emergency closing policy is posted as a PDF here.

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