Teaching Without Tenure

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

William Kangas is working in the kind of liberal-arts program that he dreamed about when he started graduate school. The place, Seattle University, and the job, teaching history, are great. There's just one not-so-small downside -- after six years, he doesn't have tenure.

Mr. Kangas is part of that growing group of non-tenure-track professors, but he has it better than...

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