Institution
American University
AUDCPrivate R2AU Alert~13,800 students
- Cases
- 8
- Alerts
- 16
- Verbatim
- 38%
- Span
- 2021–2025
Official alert policy
How AU says it will alert — when and how AU Alerts activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
8 cases · 6 of 16 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2024
- police activity: 2024-10-0930-Minute Shelter-in-Place: AU's Second Lockdown of 2024 Ended When the Gun Turned Out to Be a Toyemergency notificationverbatim
- missing person: 2024-07-28Four Days, Two States, and a Student Senator: The Missing Person Alert That Mobilized a Summer Campusmissing studentverbatim
- water contamination: 2024-05-08115-Year-Old DC Water Main Break Triggers Boil Advisory Across American University's Campusadvisory
- police activity: 2024-04-27"Dangerous Subject On Or Near Campus": 30 Words That Locked Down American University on a Saturday Eveningemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type