Call them the phony faculty members. （他们被称为教授）Their names appear on the Web site of Preston University（他们的名字出现在普莱斯顿大学的网页上）, an unaccredited institution（野鸡大学） here. But they have never taught a course for Preston or supervised any of the university's students.（但是他们根本没有为普吝啬吨大学上饴糖课或者指导任何一个大学生）

Preston has a list of 49 faculty members on its Web site http://www.preston.edu/faculty.html), which includes William Lieberman and Kenneth Dolbeare. But both -- selected at random and contacted by The Chronicle -- say they have nothing to do with Preston.

"I'm not affiliated with Preston and never was," says Mr. Dolbeare, who teaches political science at the University of Colorado at Denver...
（”我和preston啥关系都没有，从来没有“Dolveare先生说到。）
affiliated.adj.附属的, 有关连的
Jerry P. Haenisch, chancellor and chief executive officer of Preston, has a simple, if incomplete, answer. Professors like Mr. Dolbeare and Mr. Lieberman usually end up on Preston's faculty list, he says, because they responded to a university advertisement seeking professors with doctoral degrees to supervise students.

"They send us their transcripts and credentials, and we put them on our faculty list and say, 'You're an adjunct faculty,' " he asserts. If Preston enrolls a student seeking a degree in that professor's field, the student will be paired with the professor, but "for 50 percent of our faculty, that never happens," says Mr. Haenisch. He acknowledges that it is misleading for the university to say Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Dolbeare are Preston professors, and admits that only about 15 of the 49 faculty members listed on the institution's Web site actively teach students or serve as mentors...