^^^This is the actual answer. It's a liability issue; I don't know about OSU, but OU has a very large commuter student population, and if they're required to come to campus, the universities potentially assume some amount of liability for what happens to them along the way. Aside from one college that's already in finals, this is Dead Week for OU, so closing this afternoon and tomorrow isn't really a big deal.
OU was closed quite a bit in 2011 due to snow an ice. I remember one class lost about a week and a half worth of lectures due to the conditions.
I was always under the assumption that in college - attendance is NOT a requirement.
That is completely true... unless it is not.
Quite a few professors made attendance a portion of your overall grade, sometimes 5% and as high as 15%. Wether it was to make it harder for some to get A's or lessen the chance at some failing by giving them easy points, it still pissed me off since I could have skipped the majority of classes in almost every subject and still walked away with a "B" average.
There are also faculty and staff to consider; some live quite a distance from Norman, including quite a few on the lower end of the pay scale.I was always under the assumption that in college - attendance is NOT a requirement.
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