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
March 31st, 2012 at 8:36AM
FYI, the Wikipedia entry on Poshard has been changed to omit discussion of the plagiarism charges.
March 31st, 2012 at 10:08AM
Thanks, Bill. I thought that might happen. I’ll link to some other stories.
April 1st, 2012 at 2:47AM
You have absolutely no idea what you are even talking about here. Our enrollment numbers are rising and our university has resisted the sad adjunctification trend even at the height of recession. In 2009, 55 new tenure-track faculty members were hired. The same happened the year before and the year after.
It is completely untrue that faculty members are leaving. We are hiring new faculty members who recently graduated from the most prestigious schools in the country because nobody else is attempting to hire massively for TT positions right now. I’m one of these faculty members and the working conditions that the university has offered to me are nothing short of amazing.
Poshard is no scholar, that’s true. But he’s a shrewd politician who has kept as afloat during very tough times and have scored a number of important political victories for us. Politicians in this country are dirty at every single level. And a public university has no choice but to play at that level. What would you have us do? Close down?
I’m a TT faculty member at this university and I can tell you that it’s an amazing place with a fantastic future. Before coming here, I worked at two Ivies and at a Canadian equivalent of an Ivy. Compared to us, those famous schools were cesspools of nastiness, corruption, and exploitation of junior faculty members.
But I guess you only dump on public universities. The vile things happening at rich and famous schools do not bother you.
I used to like your blog a lot but now I’m just disappointed. If you write about things without even trying to do a tiniest bit of research, then how can anybody trust a single post of yours?
April 1st, 2012 at 10:54AM
Hi Clarissa: Here are some of my sources:
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/education/article_e08d20e2-0f8a-11df-b07a-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/17271545/siu-controversy-between-president-and-board-of-trustee-members
http://www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Tension-between-Leaders-at-SIU-144302285.html
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/boys-basketball/apathy-becomes-big-concern-at-siuc/article_316abb95-dc26-5297-9c8f-5554c571cd9e.html
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/12/siu