When should colleges cancel classes for weather?

It is not reasonable to expect students to reschedule flights (probably booked full anyway and VERY expensive to change last minute) to get back earlier than planned from a break. Not everyone drives back to campus from holiday and can just adjust to the forecast with a weeks notice. That said I don’t think it’s necessary to cancel classes (unless the faculty also can’t make it back, which should be a concern as well.) Just hold class but make it a “special topic” discussion or study day-- not one that is urgent to make up and no penalty for missing.