September 1, 2006

Teaching Your Way to Tenure

By PIPER FOGG

For some professors, research isn't the only path to job security

The instructions Michel A. Wattiaux received when he started a faculty job in dairy science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison six years ago were simple yet daunting: Change the way the students learn.

Mr. Wattiaux, who was raised on a dairy farm in Belgium, was primed for the challenge. He had spent the previous nine years on Madison's payroll teaching farmers around the world about good dairy practices.

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