… here’s how to write total nothingness, at a cost to the citizens of Ohio of over a million dollars a year.
… here’s how to write total nothingness, at a cost to the citizens of Ohio of over a million dollars a year.
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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 13th, 2009 at 8:18AM
At least Gee doesn’t pretend to have a doctorate.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:56AM
"universities must break out of the silo structures – of departments and budgets and mind sets – that have calcified over time. The world’s problems do not fit solely inside the bounds of a mechanical engineering department any more than they do an English department"…the term "silo" is increasingly being used as a general-purpose organizational insult. Of course the problems of the world do not fit into the bounds of an ME department or an English department, but this doesn’t mean these structures don’t represent reasonable and useful ways of organizing knowledge. The probable alternative is pure mush, in which all knowledge would be reduced to something like an 8th grade "social studies" class.
The idea that the university exists to solve the world’s problems is also pretty presumptuous.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:04PM
On one hand, he produces an utterly banal thought: "To start, we must ensure that all of our students possess passports, enabling them to take full advantage of opportunities to study, work, and live abroad." But then in almost the next sentence, he uses the word "archipelagic", which is probably the first time I’ve ever seen "archipelago" turned into an adjective. Pedantry? Perhaps, but most other authors of banal prose would have written something like "balkanized". I’m not sure that’s worth $1M/year, though.