… is now publishing her latest IHE post.
Title: Pathology of the Laptop.
… is now publishing her latest IHE post.
Title: Pathology of the Laptop.
A few months ago, a kind reader put this blog on Facebook.
UD wants to remind her regular readers, and tell her new ones, about this UD resource.
UD‘s extremely proud to appear in the following first paragraph in an Anthony Grafton essay in The New Republic:
Morning, nowadays, means coffee and the Times, as it did for my parents. But it also means something they never experienced: a trip across the Web. Slipping from link to link, occasionally falling in and spending a few minutes in one place, I pass from TNR to NYRB to Bookforum, from Atrios to Steve Benen, from Easily Distracted to University Diaries to Tenured Radical to TigerHawk, from Historiann and Arts & Letters Daily to Cliopatria and Athens & Jerusalem, from Andrew Sullivan to Megan McArdle to Ta-Nehisi Coates—and, for perspective, to the obituaries in the Telegraph.
Talk about being in good company.
Tony’s reviewing Mary Beard‘s latest book — UD and Mary are longtime mutual blog admirers.
UD thanks her friend Christina for noticing the TNR essay.
My New Year’s Inside Higher Ed column is about bondage, discipline, and the American university. In fact, it’s titled BDSM and the American University.
It’ll be up later tonight. As always, click on the title when it appears under the Latest UD Blogs at IHE column to your right.
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Here it is.
… has fixed my WordPress page, so links and all the other stuff are now working.
It’s about students and professors and art and derangement.
Actually, it’s not up quite yet.
Hold on.
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… should be up shortly. It’s about ed schools. Title: Sheep May Safely Graze.
I’ll link to it as soon as it appears.
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… UD was writing a longish post about plagiarism, which should appear at Inside Higher Education any second now.
Ah. Here it is.
And an update on media stuff: Mr UD was indeed interviewed yesterday by the guy from ABC. He told the guy not to listen to Mr UD‘s wife on the subject of laptops in the classroom. Something like that. We’ll see if any of this makes it to the screen.
I’ve updated the column on the right of this page which lists reactions from the blogosphere to University Diaries. Out with the old praise, in with the new.
UD’s grateful for all of these generous words.
She’s also grateful, as ever, to this blog’s webmistress, UD‘s niece, Carolyn. Carolyn did the technical work.
… is going up even as we speak.
It’s a response to a recent Stanley Fish post at his New York Times blog.
As always, to read UD‘s IHE posts, click on one of the titles listed at the LATEST UD BLOGS AT IHE feature just to your right. →
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… is the title of my latest post at Inside Higher Education. It’s about Jung’s forthcoming Red Book.
… has for some time had its own annual college rankings, with categories and methodology quite different from the US News list. That makes the magazine worth a visit; but more, much more than this is the fact that they list University Diaries on their blogroll.
Today’s my first day of teaching — Novels of Don DeLillo and The Short Story. Who knows how much blogging I’ll get done…
UD thanks her friend Jeff for suggesting that she add a Share This feature to University Diaries. If you click on the Share This icon at the bottom of each post, you can easily forward the post to people, or put it on Facebook, or Tweet it, or whatever.
UD also thanks her beloved webmistress, Carolyn, for strapping the thing on for her.
… as she discovers a link to her blog — to a particularly nasty post at that — on the Facebook page of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences English Prof. Margaret Soltan’s blog weighs in on “fair market value” for doctors’ consulting fees after surgeon resigns during Congressional probe.
Etc.
I’m on an official GW university page?
UD ran back to bed and woke up Mr UD.
“Doesn’t this,” she said anxiously, “make me legitimate?”
“Don’t worry,” said Mr UD. “No.”
… a post about Ian Hacking, this year’s recipient of the Holberg Prize.
Title of the post: HACKING TUTORIAL.
Should be up pretty soon at IHE. I’ll link to it when that happens.
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Update: The Hacking piece is now up at Inside Higher Ed.
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