Abstract
The papers are comprised of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Barbara Cloud's records dating from 1983 to 2008 and the Communications Studies Department "University Focus" radio program audio tapes. The records include research Barbara Cloud conducted while a professor in the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs including: women journalists, women newspaper writers, women editors, women and men in the media, and the role of newspapers in the American west. The materials also include information about lectures Professor Cloud gave. The records provide an overview about the type of research and work Professor Cloud was engaged with while teaching journalism at UNLV.
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The papers are comprised of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Barbara Cloud's records dating from 1983 to 2008 and the Communications Studies Department "University Focus" radio program audio tapes. The records include research Barbara Cloud conducted while a professor in the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs including: women journalists, women newspaper writers, women editors, women and men in the media, and the role of newspapers in the American west. The materials also include information about lectures Professor Cloud gave. The records provide an overview about the type of research and work Professor Cloud was engaged with while teaching journalism at UNLV.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) journalism professor Barbara Cloud (1938-2009) started working at UNLV in 1979. Before becoming a professor at UNLV, Cloud was a reporter for newspapers in Oregon and Idaho. Cloud also worked as a freelance journalist in Los Angeles, California and as a public relations consultant. Before retiring from UNLV in 2005, Cloud served as the associate provost for academic affairs from 1998 to 2003, was the president of the UNLV Phi Kappa Phi honorary society, and established the UNLV chapter of Kappa Tau Alpha. Cloud was the author of several books including,
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“UNLV journalism professor dies,”
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greenspun College of Urban Affairs Records, 1983-2008. UA-00022. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Materials were transferred to the University Archives; accession number 2017-048.
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These records are unprocessed. A rough inventory of the accession was created by Maggie Bukowski in 2017. To prepare the inventory, the described materials were reviewed to create a contents list, estimate dates, and identify material types. No other work has been performed on the materials.
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