Institution
Cornell University
CornellNYPrivate R1CornellALERT~26,000 students
- Cases
- 21
- Alerts
- 38
- Verbatim
- 29%
- Span
- 1967–2026
Official alert policy
How Cornell says it will alert — when and how CornellALERT activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
21 cases · 11 of 38 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
2025
2024
- other: 2024-12-04"A Travel Ban Is Likely": Cornell International Services Names 12 Countries and Tells Students to Be Back by January 21advisory
- assault: 2024-10-30Found Hiding Under Her Bed: Cornell Student Arrested After Halloween-Eve Intrusion Into Women's Dorm Roomtimely warning
- sexual assault: 2024-10-25Drugged and Assaulted at Chi Phi: The Fraternity Crisis That Shut Down Cornell Greek Life for a Weekendtimely warning
- tornado: 2024-07-10"Take Shelter Immediately in Permanent Building": Cornell's Tornado Warning on the Day New York Set a 42-Warning Recordemergency notificationverbatim
- burglary: 2024-04-18AirPods Max From an Unlocked Dorm: Cornell's Crime Alert in the Middle of a West Campus Burglary Wavetimely warningverbatim
- hazmat: 2024-03-11Smoke From a Bench Reaction in Baker Lab: An IFD Fire Alarm Upgrades to a Full Hazmat Assignmentadvisoryverbatim
- threat of violence: 2024-02-23Identical Anonymous Email Threatens Violence at Cornell and Multiple Other Universitiestimely warningverbatim
2023
- threat of violence: 2023-10-29'I Will Shoot Up 104 West': Cornell Junior's Online Threats Against Jewish Students Shut Down an Ivy League Campusemergency notificationverbatim
- arson: 2023-09-13Three Crime Alerts in Twelve Days Traced an Unsolved Arson Pattern Through Cornell's North Campus Dormstimely warning
- swatting: 2023-04-04Spring Break 4:30 AM: Cornell Police Wake Jameson Hall Residents to Search for a Gunman Who Was Never Thereadvisoryverbatim
- burglary: 2023-01-285:30 AM at 100 Highland Place: A Stranger Walked Into a Cornell Residence and Demanded Moneytimely warning
By incident type