Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Michigan State University

MSUMIPublic R1MSU Alert~51,000 students

Cases: 11
Alerts: 29
Verbatim: 93%
Span: 2014–2026

Official alert policy

How MSU says it will alert: when and how MSU Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

11 cases · 27 of 29 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

hazmat: 2026-04-27Evacuation over an 'unidentified chemical' later tied to meth-making materialsemergency notificationverbatim
police activity: 2026-02-10Live 'ACTIVE VIOLENCE INCIDENT' alert sent during a system test; corrected in two minutestestverbatim

2025

threat of violence: 2025-02-26Threat of violence, February 26, 2025emergency notificationverbatim

2024

2023

active shooter: 2023-02-13Gunman killed three students at two campus buildings; five others critically injuredemergency notification3 killed · 5 injuredverbatim

2020

covid 19: 2020-09-12A county orders all students to self-quarantine as a dorm becomes isolation housingadvisoryverbatim

2019

bomb threat: 2019-09-06Phoned-in bomb threat empties the administration building; about 400 people evacuatedemergency notificationverbatim

2014

bomb threat: 2014-11-25Campus-wide secure-in-place after multiple bomb threat messages; determined to be a hoaxemergency notificationverbatim

By incident type

What MSU has alerted about

Violent Threat · 5 Hazmat / Gas · 2 Property Crime · 2 Police Activity · 1 Public Health · 1

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