Weather and Emergency Alerts

Thursday, January 18

CIA will remain open as scheduled. Students and employees will maintain access to the academic building until midnight, and the Cinematheque screening will take place as scheduled.

Friday, January 19

All classes are canceled for the day, business offices will be closed and Cinematheque screenings will be postponed. There will be no access to studios. Employees are not expected to work from home but may do so at their discretion.

Saturday, January 20

We will closely monitor forecasts and conditions with the intention of returning to normal operations. Barring additional inclement weather, the academic building will open to students and employees at 7am Saturday. Public hours for the Cinematheque, Reinberger Gallery and Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library are listed at cia.edu/building-hours.  

Work-Study Job Fair

Career Services' Work-Study Job Fair, which was scheduled for Friday, January 19, will now take place from 11am to noon Tuesday, January 23. The location will remain the Mary Ann and Jack Katzenmeyer Student Lounge and John and Sally Schulze North Lobby.

CWRU Classes

CIA students who are cross-registered for classes at Case Western Reserve University should refer to CWRU's protocols and official communications at cwru.edu.

CIAlerts

CIA’s emergency notification system, e2Campus, enables the College to send urgent news to your cell phone, email, and voicemail. It will not be used for general CIA announcements.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the Institute to use this service.

All members of the CIA community (students, faculty, and staff) have been pre-registered for CIAlerts based on information currently on file with the Institute. This includes name, CIA email address, and cell and home phone (if provided).

Access your CIAlerts Account at my.cia.edu/alerts to review, verify, and update your personal information. Family members who you wish to receive alerts should be added as additional email addresses and/or phone numbers within your account. You may have a maximum of two SMS (text) numbers, five email addresses, and two voice numbers listed.

It is strongly recommended that you have at least one non-CIA method of being contacted, such as a cell phone number or a non-CIA email address. This will help ensure that you receive a notification in the event of a local or regional service outage when your CIA phone and email may be off line.

CIA website and social media accounts

In emergency situations, the Cleveland Institute of Art will post emergency and important alert messages on the College's website, in a banner at the top of the homepage and interior pages, and also on the mobile website.

These notifications will also be posted on the CIA's official Facebook page (facebook.com/cleinstituteart), Instagram account (instagram.com/cleinstituteart), and Twitter account (@cleinstituteart).

Radio and television broadcasts

To broadcast automatic messages during an emergency, CIA communicates with several local radio and television stations which operate automatic, web- or phone-based systems. These automatic systems have a crawling message across the bottom of the screen and we are mostly likely to use them to announce a college closure, most often due to inclement weather. Television stations that carry closure information include WKYC Channel 3, WOIO Action 19, Fox 8 Channel 8, and WEWS News Channel 5.

However, the most reliable sources of information will be messages directly from CIA that you receive via email, or sent directly to your cell  phone, or that you see broadcast on www.cia.edu.