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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Thursday, September 21, 2006

THIS AND THAT...

...as UD races out the door to 'thesda's Montgomery Mall, where she'll do her annual dash-through to get presentable clothes for the academic year. Longtime readers know that this event always ends with a worried call from UD's credit card company, in which she's warned that a thief has been dashing through Montgomery Mall using her card...



*** I Dismember Mama

Shannon Chamberlain writes a fine and balanced appraisal of recent books about the Mommy Wars.

*** Date Change

The article about Rate My Professors in which UD's excellent insights (not that she remembers any of them - it was a phone interview) appear comes out the 27th, not the 26th.

*** New York Times Business Writer's Long National Nightmare Over

For the last few months, UD's been haunted by the anxieties about Harvard's financial future that Joseph Nocera shared in his article titled "Harvard Punishes Success." Mourning the departure of all of Harvard's money men because the university slapped an unconscionable ceiling of $20 million on each man's take home pay (they'd been getting $35 million and were due to get more), Nocera predicted Harvard's endowment would go down the tubes as second-raters willing to work for chump change took over.

Well Joe - and all of us - can heave a sigh of relief! The mendicants now running the show did great! The endowment's up to 30 billion!

Sixty billion, here we come!