Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Wake Forest University

Wake ForestNCPrivate R1Wake Alert~9,100 students

Cases: 8
Alerts: 25
Verbatim: 96%
Span: 2018–2026

Case log

Every documented incident

8 cases · 24 of 25 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

swatting: 2026-05-05Swatting call during finals week confirmed false within about 24 minutesemergency notificationverbatim
tornado: 2026-03-16Tornado warning sent campus to lowest building levels; no damage reportedemergency notificationverbatim

2025

sexual assault: 2025-09-27Advisory issued after reports of three residence-hall assaults by one studenttimely warningverbatim

2023

swatting: 2023-04-09Active-shooter report near two campus buildings determined to be a swatting callemergency notificationverbatim

2022

hazmat: 2022-01-31Fertilizer plant fire nearby prompts four days of alerts and class cancellationsemergency notificationverbatim

2021

2018

shooting: 2018-01-20Visiting student fatally shot during a sorority party at a campus event venueemergency notification1 killedverbatim

By incident type

What Wake Forest has alerted about

Violent Threat · 5 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Sex Offense · 1 Weather · 1

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