Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of Massachusetts Amherst

UMass AmherstMAPublic R1UMass Alert~32,000 students

Cases: 8
Alerts: 16
Verbatim: 19%
Span: 1986–2025

Official alert policy

How UMass Amherst says it will alert — when and how UMass Amherst Alerts activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

8 cases · 3 of 16 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

fire: 2025-08-31An Electrical Panel Failure in a Basement Mechanical Room Forced 165 UMass Amherst Students Out of Wheeler Hall Before Sunriseemergency notification

2024

2023

assault: 2023-11-03'You Think You're So Tough Waving a Flag, Zionist S—bag' — UMass Amherst's Public Statement After a Punch and a Spit on the Israeli Flag at a Hillel Vigiladvisoryverbatim

2022

hazmat: 2022-08-01An Unintended Chemical Reaction in the Physical Sciences Building, and a Regional Hazmat Call to Brand-New UMassadvisoryverbatim

2020

covid 19: 2020-11-08'Do Not Come to Campus to Pick Up Your Student': UMass Amherst's Pre-Thanksgiving Travel Order for 5,000 Residential Studentsadvisory

1986

civil unrest: 1986-10-27Beaten Unconscious After the World Series: The UMass Brawl That Named the 'Hurst Report'advisory10 injured

By incident type

What UMass Amherst has alerted about

Civil Unrest · 2 assault · 1 Fire · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 other · 1 Public Health · 1 Sex Offense · 1

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