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
December 10th, 2009 at 12:09PM
"15 other people of different backgrounds"…academic administrators, like government bureaucrats, tend to assume that a person’s identity is defined by characteristics such as race, gender, and class. In reality, the difference (for teaching purposes) between an extreme extrovert or an extreme introvert may be greater than the difference between two people of different races or genders or economic backgrounds. And that’s just one example: there are dozens of variables affecting how an individual thinks and perceives. The obsessive focus on race/class/gender is probably partly a matter of fashion, partly a matter of left-wing politics, and partly a matter of "physics envy", in which easily-measurable factors are given a disproportionate weight.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:33PM
> the difference … between an extreme extrovert [like UD] or an extreme introvert [like RJO] …
Some years ago I had an extended close encounter with a Residence Life department. I still have flashbacks in the middle of the night. These folks were hard-core card-carrying School-of-Education Progressive Developmental Educators. They taught people how to teach people about Diversity.
And from my extended close encounter, it was clear that they were the most homogeneous group of people I’ve ever interacted with. They through they were Diverse, because some of them were black and some of them were white; in fact, they were so uniform in their attitudes and beliefs that they were virtually a cult (and they routinely employed the kind of group-bonding pressures that cults employ).
December 10th, 2009 at 2:58PM
At a management class I attended many years ago, one of the speakers was a psych professor (from GW, IIRC)…His advice was to avoid the temptation to hire people psychologically similar to yourself, because then you will all see the same things and fail to see the same things, and will happily all walk off the cliff together…