… is discovering yourself on blogrolls all over the world. University Diaries has been listed as a favorite blog on quite a few sites lately, and she wants to share those sites with you. Which she will do later this afternoon. UD teaches today, and is busy preparing classes.
… on the blogroll of Measuring Stick, a new group blog dedicated to the “quality and assessment of higher education.”
Saying goodbye to La Kid, who’s studying in Ireland this year.
Read all about it.
… links to my post about the nature and purpose of a serious university education.
University Diaries welcomes readers from MPR.
… from the blog All Things Shining.
UD wrote about the blog’s author back in 2006.
If you’d like to read more of her prose analyses, click on the category Scathing Online Schoolmarm.
… for UD is receiving review copies of books on subjects of interest to her and her readers. UD knows that truly fancy people find getting these things annoying.
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Indeed one of UD‘s memories from a long-ago weekend in John Kenneth Galbraith’s Vermont house involves her coming across, on a table by his bed, an enormous pile of review copies of all sorts of books. UD sat down in an ecstasy and lost herself in these just-published goodies, but it was clear that JKG himself didn’t feel as happy about it.
UD just picked up, at the Garrett Park post office (remember that her town doesn’t get home delivery), a review copy of White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, by Carl Elliott. She’s reading it now.
UD has written a longish post about Gillian Rose, Christopher Hitchens, and humanism, and sent it off to her other campus at Inside Higher Education. It will appear there at around noon today.
A website discussion board asks:
WHAT MADE YOU A HARDCORE WEB SURFER?
One answer:
Brian Leiter, Robert Wolff, Margaret Soltan, a bunch of others.
In the case of Rodrigo Carraminana, a math professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose directorship of a Latino center on campus has been criticized in the student newspaper, UD ran with an intemperate post on the subject.
Recognizing that she had done this, and that this wasn’t fair to Professor Carraminana, she removed the post.
It’s a review of UD‘s blogpal Daniel Carlat’s new book, Unhinged.
I’ve added a new link — to Simon Johnson’s blog, The Baseline Scenario. For all your Goldman Sachs needs.
… this morning’s Inside Higher Ed.
And, as long as we’re on the subject: The Goldman Sachs Song.
… is the title of my latest Inside Higher Ed post. It’s about the British poet Peter Porter, who has died.