The most powerful group within a university is its tenured faculty.

一所大学内最有权势的团体是终身教授们。

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Scientists with tenured faculty positions and NSF grants ridiculed these visions, noting that their fundamental improbability made them an absurd projection of what the future holds.

有终身职位，享受美国国家基金科学会拨款的科学家们嘲笑 这种看法，指出 这种根本不可能实现的看法是他们对未来 事物的一种荒唐的预测。

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For example, at a university, faculty deans, tenured professors, associate professors, and teaching assistants are able to both input marks and adjust marks (perhaps for bell-curving them).

他们，例如，在大学中，系主任、终身教授、副教授和助教都能够输入分数和调整分数(可能大多数情况下就是如此)。

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Perhaps the competition for a limited number of tenured faculty spots warps their views.

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This, of course, requires shifting still more teaching to graduate students and other adjunct, non-tenured faculty.

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Ammons announced Wednesday that he is returning to a tenured faculty position in October.

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