Services that the office of Public Affairs provides include:
- Promoting the distinctive benefits and accomplishments of UNLV
- Monitoring and responding to public issues and perceptions
- Involving faculty, staff, students, and constituents in reaching the university's goals
- Crisis communications
- Initiating news coverage
- Responding to media requests for information, story ideas, and faculty experts
- Producing and distributing news about research activities, people, and programs
- Distributing news and publicity photos
- Arranging interviews and media visits for faculty and staff
- Advising colleges, departments, and individuals on media and public relations
- Providing training to prepare faculty and staff to deal more effectively with the media
- Coordinating news conferences
- Maintaining news media mailing lists
- Internally distributing news clippings and transcripts that detail news coverage of accomplishments of the university, faculty, students, and alumni
- Producing Campus Connections, our public affairs television program
