Institution
Princeton University
PrincetonNJPrivate R1TigerAlert~8,500 students
- Cases
- 18
- Alerts
- 28
- Verbatim
- 96%
- Span
- 2020–2026
Official alert policy
How Princeton says it will alert: when and how TigerAlert (formerly PTENS) activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
18 cases · 27 of 28 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- wildlife: 2026-05-20Advisory after a black bear sighting on campusadvisoryverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-02-22Winter weather closes campus to non-essential personnel Feb 22–23emergency notificationverbatim
- winter storm: 2026-01-25Winter weather closes campus to non-essential personnel Jan 25–26emergency notificationverbatim
2025
- other: 2025-09-24Advisory after lewdness reported inside a campus academic buildingadvisoryverbatim
- infrastructure failure: 2025-09-09Campus IT outage disables SSO and some phones; buildings manually lockedadvisoryverbatim
- robbery: 2025-09-03Timely warning after two-suspect robbery near campus housingtimely warningverbatim
- missing person: 2025-04-22Missing undergraduate sought after last seen near main library; remains found days latermissing student1 killedverbatim
- other: 2025-04-01Advisory after lewdness reported on canal towpath near campusadvisoryverbatim
2024
- other: 2024-10-21Advisory after lewdness reported in campus arts buildingadvisoryverbatim
- other: 2024-08-28Second advisory after lewdness reported in a car on a campus streetadvisoryverbatim
- other: 2024-08-26Advisory after lewdness on canal towpath; suspect later charged and barredadvisoryverbatim
- other: 2024-08-26Advisory after lewdness reported in a car on a campus streetadvisoryverbatim
- assault: 2024-08-05Timely warning after aggravated assault reported in campus librarytimely warningverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-04-29Protesters occupied a dean's office for about three hours; 13 received trespass summonsesadvisoryverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-04-25Pre-emptive arrest warning emailed before an encampment; two arrested in minutesadvisoryverbatim
- earthquake: 2024-04-05Earthquake felt on campus; no injuries or damage reportedemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type