Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of Virginia

UVAVAPublic R1UVA Alerts~26,000 students

Cases: 12
Alerts: 36
Verbatim: 39%
Span: 1997–2026

Official alert policy

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

Case log

Every documented incident

12 cases · 14 of 36 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

bomb threat: 2026-03-13Five Virginia Campuses Hit by Coordinated Library Bomb Threats on a Single Fridayemergency notificationverbatim

2025

other: 2025-09-26Down the Hill: 19 Hospitalized in the Scott Stadium Field Rush After UVA Upsets No. 8 FSUadvisory

2024

2023

robbery: 2023-10-04A Crash, a Strangling, and a Manhunt for a UVA Student's Abductortimely warning

2022

active shooter: 2022-11-1336 Alerts Over 12 Hours: UVA's Overnight Manhunt After Bus Shootingemergency notification3 killed · 2 injuredverbatim

2017

civil unrest: 2017-08-11The Torch March UVA Did Not Alert: 250 White Supremacists at the Rotunda and the Most-Criticized Silence in U.S. Campus Notification Historyemergency notification5 injured

2014

other: 2014-11-20Bricks Through Phi Kappa Psi's Windows: The Morning After Rolling Stone Came to UVAadvisory

2010

domestic violence: 2010-05-03The Murder That Forced Every R1 to Re-Read Its Timely-Warning Policytimely warning1 killed

2002

bomb threat: 2002-09-01Six Bomb Threats in One Semester Changed How UVA Responds to Evacuations -- and Exposed the Limits of 2002-Era Alertingemergency notification

1997

infrastructure failure: 1997-05-18Jefferson's Own Design Killed One at UVA's Graduation: A Single Corroded Rod Brought Down Pavilion Iemergency notification1 killed · 24 injured

By incident type

What UVA has alerted about

Bomb Threat · 2 other · 2 Active Shooter · 1 aggravated assault · 1 Civil Unrest · 1 domestic violence · 1 Fire · 1 Infrastructure · 1 Property Crime · 1 Weather · 1

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