Institution
Boston University
BUMAPrivate R1BU Alert~37,000 students
- Cases
- 9
- Alerts
- 16
- Verbatim
- 69%
- Span
- 2013–2026
Official alert policy
How BU says it will alert: when and how BU Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
9 cases · 11 of 16 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
2024
2023
- sexual offense: 2023-10-24Two gropings reported hours apart lead to an overnight arrest of a single suspecttimely warningverbatim
- burglary: 2023-08-22Early-morning burglaries through open windows hit three residence halls near move-intimely warningverbatim
- swatting: 2023-04-09Simultaneous hoax active-shooter calls at opposite ends of campus; no threat foundemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type