It’s not just that it will finally address the scourge of “lugging stacks of books across campus.”
In the words of its one of its faculty members, “People shouldn’t be discriminated for where they chose to live.”
It’s not just that it will finally address the scourge of “lugging stacks of books across campus.”
In the words of its one of its faculty members, “People shouldn’t be discriminated for where they chose to live.”
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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
August 29th, 2011 at 9:01AM
[…] research profile, this online program will make it a joke among educators everywhere. Thank you, Margaret Soltan, for posting a link to this story. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like […]
August 29th, 2011 at 9:23AM
Training students never to have to see students.
Not only is it great for the student, but it can all be taught from a little café near the Sorbonne.
August 29th, 2011 at 9:59AM
I can see the point of this, from the perspective of a giant state like Idaho. It’s not always an option to uproot yourself. But in practice…it’s never done carefully enough.
August 29th, 2011 at 11:03AM
According to Kerry Rice, chair of Boise State’s Department of Educational Technology, “The degree will be one of the only online-only degrees the university offers.” Isn’t that special !
August 29th, 2011 at 1:31PM
It additionally troubles me that an “Associate Professor in Educational Technology” doesn’t know how to use the correct preposition with “discriminated.”
August 30th, 2011 at 1:50AM
Professors from the Sorbonne (see @francofou) are notorious for providing research students with very little supervision… Is this so different from an online program?
August 30th, 2011 at 7:02AM
to be able to sell degrees without building/grounds costs (and related presidential fundraising), not to mention that pesky student life nonsense is an administrative/accounting dreamland and if people can be suckered into buying it will be like a force of nature that sweeps through the structures of academic life as we know it. the writing may be on the screen for all (who pay) to see
August 30th, 2011 at 2:34PM
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/08/30/7524387-steal-this-report-college-plagiarism-up-says-pew-report?GT1=43001
November 9th, 2011 at 9:33AM
for those of us who travel, live far away for the US, and realized late in life a PhD is what we want/need, this allows us to pursue QUALITY higher education without excessive disruption to our professional and personal lives.