Class Cancellations:
If, due to illness or other emergency, you need to cancel your class, you must call the appropriate faculty secretary prior to the start of class. On the main campus, please call 617-405-5911. Allied Health faculty must notify the Allied Health Secretary at 617-405-5990. In Plymouth, please call the main desk at 508-747-0400. Inform the secretary of your name, the title of your course(s), section number(s), day and time(s) it meets, and the building and room number. If there is an assignment for your students, state this as well.
Day and Evening Adjunct Faculty must contact their respective Dean to determine a plan to make up the contact hours missed. Such arrangements must be decided upon and reported in writing to your Dean within seven days of any absence, unless otherwise directed by your Dean. Any arrangements for make-up time must offer the students your time without penalizing them if they are unable to attend. In extreme emergencies, Adjunct Faculty must in advance of the absence contact their Dean (in writing) requesting the time they will be out and a proposed make-up plan for the contact hours missed. Any coverage of a class you will miss must be approved and arranged through the Dean. Any arrangement other than cancellation that involves payment must be done through the college payroll system.
School/Weather Cancellations:
The following TV/Radio stations will broadcast Quincy College cancellations: Channel 5/WCVB, Channel 25, NECN/NBC 10, Channel 7/WHDH/Channel 56 (CW), Channel 4/CBS/WBZ/WSBK. Weather cancellation messages are also posted on the Quincy College weather information line at 617-984-1700, option 8. For those faculty members relying on broadcast media for announcements of weather related cancellations or delays, please note that broadcast references to "Quincy" or "Quincy Public Schools" being cancelled or delayed do not apply to Quincy College. College cancellations or delays will refer specifically to "Quincy College'
In general department managers are expected to establish phone chains within offices so fellow workers can inform staff about late arrivals due to weather. The College expects to staff offices if the College does not close for weather emergencies. The College expects that employee absences be coordinate as much as possible and all employees shall follow appropriate protocol for calling in as absent as outlined in the current collective bargaining agreements, the Quincy College policy Manual, the Faculty Handbook and here within.
Any faculty who find they must cancel a class or a day of classes must call 617-405-5911 as well as their appropriate academic Dean, so that students are informed appropriately.
Original: June 2006
TV/Radio Stations updated: October 2021