Rate My Professor Arnold Bell

Arnold Bell, M.S., Ph.D., serves as CC Professor in the Communication Department at the College of Southern Nevada's North Las Vegas Campus, within the Arts & Letters division. He earned his Master of Science in Communication from South Dakota State University and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A committed educator, Bell instructs courses such as COM 101: Oral Communication, equipping students with essential rhetorical and public speaking abilities. His dedication to teaching extends to active participation in campus events, including career and internship expos.

Bell has played a pivotal role in faculty governance at CSN. As Faculty Senate Chair around 2019, he reported on critical matters including the development of shared governance policies, implementation of Watermark and Complete College America initiatives, counselor reassignments, presidential performance evaluations, and advocacy for faculty compensation and diverse representation to boost student success. He emphasized strategic partnerships with Latin and Urban Chambers and cultural competency programming. Bell recommended policies on administrative degree clearance and elections. Presently, he represents Arts & Letters on the Faculty Senate Bylaws and Rules Committee through 2027. Bell organizes the annual Frederick Douglass Lecture Series, an egalitarian summit fostering civic engagement via discussions on civil rights, social justice, critical race theory, and Frederick Douglass's principles of self-belief, opportunity seizure, and language's transformative power. The series, running for over a decade including 2026 events with speakers like Dr. Evelin Gerda Lindner, honors civil rights veterans. In scholarship, Bell delivered 'A Rhetorical Analysis of the Evolution of Hip-Hop Curriculums at Post-Secondary Institutions' at the 2013 Western Social Science Association conference, probing hip-hop's academic legitimacy in African American studies, endorsed by scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West, and Michael Eric Dyson. His contributions enhance CSN's academic and communal fabric.