Campus Alert Archive

Institution

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Cal Poly SLOCAPublic MastersPolyAlert~22,000 students

Cases: 4
Alerts: 8
Verbatim: 0%
Span: 1960–2024

Official alert policy

How Cal Poly SLO says it will alert — when and how PolyAlert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

4 cases · 0 of 8 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2024

wildfire: 2024-04-08Smoke Drifts Across Cal Poly SLO as Lizzie Fire Forces City Evacuations Just Off Campusemergency notification

2020

wildfire: 2020-08-19CZU Lightning Complex Erases a Century of Cal Poly's Swanton Pacific Ranch: Al Smith House, Car Barn, Railroad Among the Ruinsadvisory

1990

civil unrest: 1990-04-27Poly Royal Collapses Into Riot: How Cal Poly's Beloved Open House Event Ended Foreveremergency notification100 injured

1960

other: 1960-10-29Fog and a Revoked License: Cal Poly's Football Team Falls at Toledo in 1960advisory22 killed · 26 injured

By incident type

What Cal Poly SLO has alerted about

Weather · 2 Civil Unrest · 1 other · 1

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