Columbian College of Arts & Sciences officials hired 10 full-time faculty members before the beginning of the academic year, according to a release last month.

The new faculty members will join programs like women’s, gender and sexuality studies, art history, data science, interactive and graphic design, professional psychology and the School of Media and Public Affairs. The history and forensic sciences departments will also each gain a faculty member, with the Department of Romance, German and Slavic Studies adding two faculty.

“Ten scholars from an array of disciplines were recruited by the university to join Columbian College’s roster of permanent full-time faculty members this year,” the release states.

The 10 new hires are down from 26 in 2023 and 24 in 2022. The hirings come after CCAS instructed department chairs earlier this year to accommodate a 15 percent budget cut of non-compensation spending to their funding for Fiscal Year 2024.

Provost Chris Bracey announced at a Faculty Senate meeting in March that the University had failed to meet a Faculty Code clause requiring 75 percent of regular faculty to be tenured or on a tenure track. CCAS had 341 tenured track and 121 non-tenure track professors in 2023, according to the University’s core indicators report.

Officials hired Oksana Yakushko as a professor in the clinical psychology program, and he will also be the program’s director. Loring Ingraham, a founding faculty member of the department, served as the program’s director starting in 2011 and now holds the position of emeritus professor.

SMPA appointed Eli Kintisch to serve as the next endowed Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media. John Sutter served as the inaugural holder of the professorship from January 2023 until the end of the Spring 2024 semester.