For junior faculty hires, who are often first-time buyers, falling home prices are a draw.

美国房价下跌，对教授们有好有坏。年轻教授准备入手人生第一栋房子的当然好；

For the junior faculty, you may have heard of it in some sort of mythical sense but it is possible.

对于哪些年轻的教员，你可能听过这样的事情，感觉这是神话般的，但这却是可能的。

A radical personnel reform program protest senior faculty hired under the old system but will dramatically raise the bar for junior faculty hoping to stay on.

大刀阔斧的人事制度改革方案保护旧体制下聘用的资深教员，但对那些希望继续留校的年轻教员，则将门栏大大加高了。