Institution
Northern Illinois University
NIUILPublic R2NIU Safety Notification~16,000 students
- Cases
- 12
- Alerts
- 15
- Verbatim
- 80%
- Span
- 2008–2026
Official alert policy
How NIU says it will alert: when and how NIU Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.
Case log
Every documented incident
12 cases · 12 of 15 alert messages verbatim-confirmed
2026
- sexual assault: 2026-09-03Sexual assault in east-side residence hall basementtimely warningverbatim
- aggravated assault: 2026-05-25Knife assault on Castle Drive East Lagoontimely warningverbatim
- nearby threat: 2026-05-07Shots fired on the 1000 block of Ridge Driveemergency notificationverbatim
- sexual assault: 2026-02-06Sexual assault in west-side residence hall roomtimely warningverbatim
2025
2024
- shooting: 2024-10-20Shooting, October 20, 2024emergency notification2 injuredverbatim
- other: 2024-10-17Homecoming pedestrian zone west of Annie Gliddenemergency notificationverbatim
- sexual assault: 2024-10-08Sexual assault in west-side hall, met same daytimely warningverbatim
- it outage: 2024-09-05Police non-emergency phones restored middayemergency notificationverbatim
- bomb threat: 2024-02-26Emailed bomb and shooting threat against the business school deemed not credibleadvisoryverbatim
By incident type