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{{as of|2006}}, there were more than 3,800 tenured or tenure-eligible faculty members, as well as 4,400 non-tenured adjunct professors and instructors.<ref name="AnswerBook">{{Cite web|title=University of Colorado System Answer Book |first1=Christiane |last1=Griffin-Wehr |first2=Jill |last2=Norton |date=May 2006 |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder |url=https://www.cusys.edu/downloads/answerbook.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022109/https://www.cusys.edu/downloads/answerbook.pdf |archive-date=February 16, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Current faculty include [[Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]] [[David J. Wineland]] (physics 2012), [[John L. Hall|John Hall]] (physics, 2005), [[Eric Cornell]] (physics, 2001), and [[Thomas Robert Cech]] (chemistry, 1989). [[Carl Wieman]] was also awarded a Nobel prize for his work with Eric Cornell. He maintains a part-time appointment at the University of Colorado Boulder but his primary appointment is Professor and Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. Controversial writer [[Ward Churchill]] was a professor of [[ethnic studies]] until he was terminated in July 2007.<ref name="wrongly fired">[{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/03churchill.html?hp&_r=0 |title=Jury Says Professor Was Wrongly Fired] {{Webarchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122143957/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/03churchill.html?hp&_r=0 |archive-date=November 22, 2018 }};|work=The ''New York Times''; |first1=Kirk |last1=Johnson and |first2=Katherine Q. |last2=Seelye; |date=April 2, 2009,}}</ref> [[Robert T. Craig (scholar)|Robert T. Craig]] an [[International Communication Association]] Fellow and author of "Communication Theory as a Field" is a professor in the Communication Department. Professor Emerita [[Susan Kingsley Kent]] is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.