System Alerts

PLU is releasing students, faculty and nonessential staff at 2 p.m. today due to inclement weather.  Nonessential crews with earlier start times will also be released 3 hours early. Conditions have not improved and snowy and icy roads are expected for the commute home. Facilities staff deemed essential will remain on campus until 4 p.m....

A variety of PLU email addresses have received hoax bomb threat emails. Many organizations and schools across the United States have also been targeted. The email demands Bit Coins as payment. The FBI has investigated and determined these emails are not a credible threat. So far, the hoax emails have been caught in the PLU...

Campus Safety has been advised by multiple students that they have received an email offering employment by a professor from another institution. In the email the person states they got the student’s name from “the chamber of commerce connected to your institutional recruiting department.” These are scam emails. Typically the scam works when the student...

The general Parkland area, to include PLU, continues to experience an increase in car prowls and vehicle theft incidents. Vehicle related crimes tend to occur in multiples. In one night there can be multiple incidents perpetrated by one individual. Currently the car prowls tend to be focused on upper campus. Although lower campus has experienced...

This is a campus-wide notification about an upcoming national emergency alert test. The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are conducting a nationwide test of the emergency alert system on Wednesday, 10/3/18 at 11:18am. This test will include the traditional television and radio interruptions, as well as an alert sent to...

At approximately 4:30pm Campus Safety was made aware of police response to Parkland Auto Licensing on Garfield street near Pacific avenue. The business reported an armed robbery had just occurred. Reports suggested the suspect committed the robbery before fleeing North away from campus where they were believed to have gotten into a vehicle and left...