Institution
George Washington University
GWUDCPrivate R1Campus Advisories / official X~26,000 students
- Cases
- 11
- Alerts
- 23
- Verbatim
- 91%
- Span
- 2023–2026
Official alert policy
How GWU says it will alert: when and how GW Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
11 cases · 21 of 23 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
2025
2024
- infrastructure failure: 2024-10-08Three academic halls stay closed after a power outage forces an evacuationemergency notificationverbatim
- fire: 2024-09-17Thurston Hall evacuate immediately for fire departmentemergency notificationverbatim
- tornado: 2024-08-09Foggy Bottom and MVC shelter for tornado warningemergency notificationverbatim
- water contamination: 2024-07-03Precautionary boil-water advisory covers both campuses over a holiday weekendadvisoryverbatim
- civil unrest: 2024-05-08Police cleared a two-week encampment before dawn; 33 protesters arrestedadvisoryverbatim
- fire: 2024-03-19Mitchell Hall fire department activity avoid areaemergency notificationverbatim
By incident type