University of Nevada, Reno

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada is the humanities and social sciences college at the University of Nevada. The Nevada School... of the Arts and the new School of Social Research and Justice Studies are located in the college. CLA contains 13 departments and 11 programs and centers and is the university's largest college. In the past three years the numbers of their undergraduate majors have grown by nearly 4 percent a year. More than half of all University of Nevada undergraduates enroll in CLA courses each semester. The College of Liberal Arts has 200 full-time faculty and 44 support staff members.
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Robert Laxalt was a Basque-American writer from Nevada. Sweet Promised Land , Laxalt's first and possibly best-known book, was based on the history... of his father, Dominique, and his return to the homeland after forty-seven years as an immigrant sheepherder in Nevada. This book was especially well received in the ranching areas of Nevada and adjacent states, and led to creation of several "Basque Festivals" in those areas. Laxalt also served as a consultant to the Library of Congress on Basque culture, and helped start the Basque Studies program at the University of Nevada. Robert was the younger brother of Paul Laxalt, former Nevada governor and U.S. Senator . Sweet Promised Land's local popularity likely played a role in his brother Paul's early political victories. Robert Laxalt founded the University of Nevada Press, which published almost all of his books written after 1964. This raised the prominence of the University of Nevada Press, but also limited the distribution and probably the critical attention given to Robert's books.
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