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Keep calm in a crisis: Best practices for emergency scheduling
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the successful registrar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7560
pISSN - 1534-7710
DOI - 10.1002/tsr.30174
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , winter storm , operations management , aeronautics , operations research , scheduling (production processes) , history , business , engineering , geography , meteorology , storm , finance
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In the winter of 2013, Oregon State University experienced a major snowstorm at the beginning of finals week, closing campus for two days. A total of 700 finals had to be rescheduled; five days of finals had to be compressed into three, and 18,000 students were impacted directly by the rescheduling. The Registrar's Office was given 48 hours to reschedule all finals, a process that usually takes more than two weeks.