Campus attacks: Targeted violence affecting institutions

This report offers preliminary findings from a review of 272 incidents of violence that affected institutions of higher education in the United States from 1900 through 2008. A joint effort of the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center, the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, this project seeks to address questions regarding where, when, and how these incidents occurred as well as what factors may have motivated or triggered the attacks. Campus professionals involved in threat assessment, campus safety, or risk management will find this report most helpful.