Administrators will make the call Sunday whether to cancel classes due to Hurricane Sandy.

The University will join two conference calls Sunday with government agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Senior Associate Vice President for Security and Safety Darrell Darnell said GW would base its decision off information from the calls.

Students would be notified by email and social media about any cancellations this week, he said.

“I feel pretty confident we will be able to get word out about what plans will be,” Darnell said Saturday night.

When asked by students via Twitter if they should do their homework for Monday, Senior Associate Provost and Dean of Students Peter Konwerski tweeted back that administrators “rarely cancel class” at GW. He said in another tweet that GW would make a decision based on the size, path and impact of the storm in the next 24 hours.

With its mild, Mid-Atlantic climate, GW cancels classes just a handful of times each year. The University has faced only a few weather-related emergencies in recent years, including last fall’s Hurricane Irene and “snowpocalypse” in 2010, which closed school for four days. The University was not forced to cancel classes during Hurricane Irene because it struck during move-in weekend, though several campus events were called off due to the storm.

The College of William and Mary and the University of Delaware have already cancelled classes for Monday. Colleges farther north like Monmouth University in New Jersey and the University of Hartford have cancelled classes until the middle of the week.

As of Friday there are no plans to close the federal government, according to the Washington Post.

– Matthew Kwiecinski contributed to this report