Cloud, Barbara Lee

Barbara Cloud was born in Tulare, California. Her father's job kept the family on the move for the first seven years of her life. They eventually settled in Idaho Falls, Idaho, where Cloud attended grade school and high school. Cloud attended Stanford University majoring in journalism. It was while at Stanford that she also met and married her husband Stan. Stan and Cloud moved to California, where Cloud got a job working on a weekly Sunday supplement. After a year and a half, they returned to Oregon and Cloud decided to get her master's in journalism. She was given a graduate assistantship at the University of Oregon, and completed the degree in two years. In 1969, Stan agreed to accept a post-doctoral assignment in Australia, and Cloud found a job with an advertising agency. After six years, the couple returned to Oregon, and Cloud decided to apply to the University of Washington for a PH.D. in journalism. She was admitted, given a graduate assistantship, and completed the work in three years.

In 1978, Cloud applied for a journalism position at UNLV. She was hired, and she and her husband moved to Las Vegas in 1979. She built up the journalism program and continued with her research. In 1983, she became department chair, a position she was elected to each year for the next six years. She was the editor of "Journalism History," published her own book, and was associate provost for academic affairs. 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, The Coming of the Frontier Press. Professor Cloud was given the honor of professor emeritus when she retired from UNLV.

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“UNLV journalism professor dies,” Las Vegas Review Journal, December 29, 2009, https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/unlv-journalism-professor-dies/.