Universities and colleges -- Nevada -- Faculty

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Paul S. Adamian was a professor of English who joined the University of Nevada faculty as a lecturer in 1966, became an assistant professor in 1968, and was granted tenure in the 1969/70 school year. The collection includes general correspondence, copies of legal records, ephemera, and newspaper clippings, 1970-1979, and materials regarding his teaching appointment at Southern Oregon College prior to becoming faculty at the University of Nevada, 1965-1966.

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The Board of Regents was established by the Nevada State Constitution in 1864 with the first Board created in 1865. The Board is responsible for the governance of the institutions comprising the Nevada System of Higher Education. Records consist of agendas, minutes, and materials submitted during Board meetings and used by the secretary of the Board to prepare the final minutes, including Nevada System of Higher Education budget reports.

Abstract Originally founded as the Normal School in 1888 and later called the School of Education after it separated from the College of Arts and Science in 1954, the College of Education includes programs in the areas of Counseling, Educational Leadership, Elementary Education, Equity and Diversity, Human Development and Family Studies, Integrated Elementary Teaching, Literacy, NevadaTeach, Secondary Education, and Special Education. The collection contains material created by and related to the...

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Katharine DeBoer joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1995 as Director of Vocal Studies in the Department of Music. The collection consists of her email invitation, the recital program, and the master and public use audio discs for Dr. DeBoer's farewell recital of July 26, 2015, following her retirement from the University's Department of Music.

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In Spring 1985, at the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the University of Nevada, Reno's Faculty Senate, the Vice President for Academic Affairs appointed a faculty committee to study salary inequities within the academic faculty. The committee conducted its study in the spring of 1986. The collection consists of material for faculty salary equity studies conducted in 1986, 1988, 1992, and 2002.

Abstract The University Council was established in 1959 to formulate and recommend to the university president legislation relative to university educational policy and faculty welfare. The Council was succeeded by the University Senate (Faculty Senate) in 1967. The Faculty Senate Records consist of minutes, handbooks, manuals, reports, and records from subcommittees and taskforces. Among the reports are the 1999 Core Curriculum Program Review and the University of Nevada Health Sciences Center...

Abstract Glenn "Jake" Lawlor (1907-1980) was a University of Nevada student where he played both football and basketball. Upon graduation, he coached sports in the northern Nevada area before returning to coach baseball and basketball at the University of Nevada. He eventually became the Director of Athletics from 1959 until 1970. The collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Lawlor's wife, Erma Lawlor, that was presented to him at his retirement in 1972. The scrapbook includes certificates, game...

Abstract Collection of records from the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno; including "Postcards-As-Art" of campus scenes. Wide variety of records include annual reports, budget data, bylaws, project reports, accession records, resource usage data, Library Staff Association records, planning material, committee reports, library publications, manuals, correspondence, the Nevada Newspaper and Serials project records, as well as DeLaMare Library, Mines Library, Special Collections,...

Abstract In 1988, the President of the Friends of the University Libraries, Marilyn Melton, proposed an awards program to honor and celebrate Nevada writers. That same year, Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Robert Laxalt became the first two authors to be inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. The records include budget and planning information for the annual programs, correspondence, histories of the two awards, biographical and marketing material about the authors, newspaper clippings, and some...

Abstract The records include architectural drawings, audio recordings of early faculty and students, biographical information about Arthur E. and Mae Emma Z. Orvis, by-laws, ceremony programs, correspondence, a guest register for School events, information about the history of the School and activities of its Alumni Association chapter, marketing material, meeting minutes, publications, scrapbooks, self-evaluation reports, and working agreements with hospitals. Founded in 1956, the Orvis School of...