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Phoned bomb threats hit four campuses in one day, evacuating two of them

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On Friday, July 1, 2022, Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University evacuated their campuses after phoned bomb threats arrived within a couple minutes of one another around midday, part of a wave that also hit Lake Region State College in Devils Lake and Dakota College at Bottineau. Police searched the buildings and found no devices, and Bismarck police gave the all-clear after about an hour. All four campuses had received the all-clear by 2 p.m. CDT.

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Bismarck State College
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On Friday, July 1, 2022, BSC received an anonymous threat regarding our campus. Bismarck PD was dispatched and worked with BSC Campus Police to initiate our emergency response protocols. BSC received an ALL-CLEAR notification that the campus is safe and secure. Employees do not need to return to campus and should continue to monitor their email for additional communications. Classes are canceled, all offices and student services are closed for the rest of the day. Students living on campus can return to their residence halls effective immediately. All students and employees were sent an email with the resources available to them for assistance and services following the incident.
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Reconstructed all-clear: Bismarck police gave the all-clear after about an hour of searching, and all four threatened campuses had been cleared by 2 p.m. CDT.
The all-clear explicitly lifts the evacuation after a building search, the standard resolution for a no-device bomb threat.
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Context

Background

July 1, 2022 brought a coordinated wave of phoned bomb threats against North Dakota higher-education campuses. According to the Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University canceled classes and evacuated their campuses after threats that arrived within a couple of minutes of each other around midday, while Lake Region State College in Devils Lake and Dakota College at Bottineau received similar threats. KX News reported that buildings were evacuated and searched and no active threats were found. Bismarck police gave the all-clear after about an hour, and all campuses were clear by 2 p.m. CDT. The Tribune noted there was no indication the incidents were connected to one another, but that officers responded to similar threats in Rapid City and Aberdeen, S.D., as well as in Washington, North Carolina and Texas, consistent with the broader pattern of hoax threats sweeping U.S. campuses. Because BSC is a polytechnic community college, this case also helps balance the archive's overrepresentation of large research universities. No verbatim alert text was published, so the messages are reconstructed and marked unconfirmed.
Analysis

Key Findings

Four North Dakota campuses (Bismarck State, Dickinson State, Lake Region State and Dakota College at Bottineau) were threatened on the same day, July 1, 2022
Threats to the two southern campuses arrived within a couple of minutes of each other, suggesting coordination even as police found no formal link
All campuses were searched and cleared with no devices found, receiving the all-clear by 2 p.m. CDT
No verbatim alert text was published, so the alert sequence is reconstructed and flagged unconfirmed
Outcome
No explosive devices were found at any campus and no one was injured. All four North Dakota institutions had received the all-clear by 2 p.m. CDT; the threats were not found to be connected to one another but mirrored similar hoax bomb threats elsewhere in the U.S.
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  1. News
    BSC, DSU evacuated for bomb threats; Bismarck police give all-clear - Bismarck Tribune
    bismarcktribune.com
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  2. News
    Bomb threats target DSU, BSC; campus buildings evacuated, no active threats found - KX News
    kxnet.com
    archived copy
  3. Official
    Timely Warning Notices - Bismarck State College
    bismarckstate.edu
    archived copy
Cite this case

Campus Alert Archive. "Bismarck State College: Phoned bomb threats hit four campuses in one day, evacuating two of them." Incident of July 1, 2022. Added May 2026; last updated September 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/bismarck-state-college-bomb-threat-2022-07-01/

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Added May 2026Updated September 2026Via ingestion