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 7th, 2009 at 8:36AM
Fortunately, this library worker doesn’t need to worry. Harvard has a faculty chock-full of progressives-confertam, et coagitatam, et supereffluentem, in St. Jerome’s lingo. I am very confident that they will step forward and offer to take 10% cuts in their very generous salary and benefit packages to help maintain the staff. Caring and sharing and all that, you know. I know the faculty at Gilligan, who will be caring and sharing to the tune of several percent next year, requested that low-paid staff be exempt from salary cuts, increasing their own give-back as a consequence. If we academic castaways can manage this, what radiant acts of self-sacrifice and generosity can we expect to see from our Ivy League relatives?
March 7th, 2009 at 8:55AM
“At least one student wondered if famous faculty benefitted students at all, or merely moved to the school to do minimal teaching and mostly conduct research. Jackson responded by noting that most faculty are able to roll over sabbaticals from previous teaching posts, or that they are granted some deference for the difficulties associated with moving across the country, but that all would eventually teach students.”
At a sit-down with the new dean of Harvard law, students begin to wonder…
http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2009/03/05/News/Howell.You.Jackson-3661086.shtml
Maybe, like Florence Babb, they’ll be asked to teach two courses a semester in these difficult times.
Will they, like Florence, file expensive grievances?
http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?s=florence+babb
They’re lawyers, after all.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:22PM
UD still has a chip on her shoulder about Babb?
There was a bit of an update to the Babb story, so you might need to revise your Babb-as-greedy narrative to accommodate the fact that she was already teaching 3 courses when the story made headlines.
"In addition to her teaching, Babb serves as graduate coordinator in the women’s studies center. Given her duties as coordinator, her new teaching load expanded to three courses over spring and fall semesters — as opposed to four classes — because her coordinator responsibility qualifies as a course."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/24/babb
March 7th, 2009 at 1:24PM
Myth, if you think grad coordinator for a small women’s studies center qualifies as a course, I have some land in Florida to sell you.
March 7th, 2009 at 2:28PM
Harvard is worse off than it looks: they bought a lot of long-term investments (forest land, mines, real estate) which, if they try to get out of now, will leave them in dreadful shape. They’re trying to hold on rather than sell at fire sale prices. Many alums, like me, are focused on the grotesque amount they do have and turn them down when they hit us up for funds. So they have a lot of stuff locked up, and what is liquid they are over-committed for.
I mean, their problems all of us should wish to have… but they do have money problems.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:49AM
Hmm…the library worker’s complaint sounds familiar. Right, could come directly from Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged". Some people have money, we have needs, so they have to give us a job and pay us according to our needs.
It makes me sad that such ideas are not immediately dismissed: America seems to become more and more sclerotic like Europe.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:41PM
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March 12th, 2009 at 2:44AM
If we became even more like Europe, is there a chance we’d end up with econ professors who don’t read Ayn Rand? (Cf. Greenspan, etc.)