For These Professors, 'Practice' Is Perfect

A category of full-time faculty members, who concentrate on teaching but are not eligible for tenure, gains favor on some campuses

Chart: Where Duke's Professors Practice

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about a new type of full-time faculty member on some campuses, the "professor of the practice," who focuses on teaching but is not on the tenure track.By PIPER FOGG

Clare J. Tufts knows how to get students talking. It is two days before spring break starts, the kind of

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