Joanne Easley Arnold, professor emerita of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder , retired from the faculty in 1996 after serving the campus for some 23 years.

Most of those years Dr. Arnold filled significant administrative posts in academic administration. She served as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs for several years, as acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, as acting dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and, for 13 years, as associate dean of the School.

After her retirement from the faculty, she served for a year as faculty associate director of the campus Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Center . She continues to serve on the GLBT Resource Center Advisory Board, the School of Education Advisory Board , the Women's Center Advisory Board and the National Advisory Board for the Division of Student Affairs. She currently serves as chair of the external Advisory Board of the Women's Studies program .

Dr. Arnold is the recipient of several campus awards, including the Robert L. Stearns Award “for extraordinary service to the University” and the CU-Boulder Faculty Council Excellence in Service Award. She has also received several national and regional professional journalism awards, among them the prestigious National Woman of Achievement Award of the National Federation of Press Women.

She has served the community of Boulder as a member of the Boulder Valley Board of Education, the Boulder Library Board, as chair of The Open Door Fund of Boulder County and as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, which she has also served as vice-president. She served for 10 years as a governor-appointed Colorado commissioner of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. In 2000 she was designated as one of Boulder 's Most Spunky Women.

She was valedictorian of the1948 graduating class of Boulder High School , where she was editor of both the school's newspaper, The Owl, and its yearbook, The Odaroloc. She was named Colorado 's Outstanding Student by the statewide Elks organization.

Dr. Arnold earned three degrees at the University of Colorado , Boulder : a B.A. in English Language in 1952, an M.A. in Journalism in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Communication Theory in 1971.

Before joining CU as associate dean of the School of Journalism , she served as assistant director of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems at WICHE. She taught 14 years at Boulder High School prior to that.

She is the mother of a son, Sanders, and two granddaughters, Emily and Mary, all of Boulder.