Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
June 8th, 2009 at 7:05AM
"She created a 2-day process that creates lasting culture change."
Amazing, isn’t it? All we need to do is pump enough money into Magaly’s bank account, and she will turn around the Taliban, the Somali pirates, and the Israelis and Palestinians–and still be back in time for Sunday dinner.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:18AM
Ya gotta hand it to these people at universities everywhere. They know how to breed cynicism, alienation, and disgust with higher education.
If the roof falls in, I dread the whimpering that will come from the lap-dog I-got-mine professorate that closes its eyes to corruption, abuse, and contempt for students and tax payers.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:20AM
From her website:
"She created a 2-day process that creates lasting culture change. This process has been proven with over 75,000 people. Participants emerge energized, hopeful and armed with advanced skills that facilitate action."
All I have to say is, if it was that easy, every dissertator’d be doing it.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:40AM
Remember the Kansas State debacle of the secret $3 million severance deal on top of the $1.5 million deal? Well, our provost Duane Nellis is leaving Kansas State to head to the University of Idaho. Perhaps he can drop us a line to give us Ms. Rodriguez’s suggestions on vitalizing change to get our money back and restore our good name.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:55AM
Doesn’t the university of Idaho already have a president? Isn’t providing inspiration one of the primary functions of a leader? Is the chief executive of this university implicitly admitting that he doesn’t have the ability to do his job?
June 8th, 2009 at 11:00AM
Well darn — I’m an inspiration officer of sorts, but I have the misfortune of dealing with all those credible religious types instead of clear-eyed rationalists like university administrators and deans. Guess that’s why I don’t bank six figures over nine months.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:34PM
Maybe what we need at Minnesota is a Chief Inspiration Officer?
After all we’ve got a Minister of Culture, we are Driven to Discover, and we typically call in consultants when we are in deep doo-doo. This allows administrators to shirk responsibility for what they were not doing…
Today, thanks to UD, I learned about the Chief Inspiration Officer at the University of Idaho. Since this consultant is from Minnesota, maybe we could get a special rate, no big travel being involved?
After all a prophet should not be without honor and money in her own land.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:46PM
This is Red Stater’s university. Basically we’ve had clueless leadership here for the past 30 years. This "CIO peacemaking" episode is rather mild to compared to others. I think that we don’t find the bad publicity as much as say SIU, because we’re in the backwater of a podunk state.
Yes, we’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of Nellis.