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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.
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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
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Roland Greene, Stanford University
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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
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Money Law
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
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Medical Humanities Blog
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Ducks and Drakes
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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 14th, 2009 at 11:08AM
There is a sense in which many online and for-profit universities are sort of diploma mills — even when they make some effort to transcend that status. Their students, often, are seeking not a degree they can take to market, but rather a credential that will qualify them for a raise or a promotion. As a result, quality is far less important than convenience and easiness.
Yes, these schools are "market-driven," but it’s not the same market that other universities compete in (despite the best efforts of successive Republican administrations). Mostly. Unfortunately, the same imperatives prevail for certain programs in "real" universities, notably graduate programs in Education.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:24PM
> a credential that will qualify them for a raise or a promotion…. Unfortunately, the same imperatives prevail for certain programs in "real" universities, notably graduate programs in Education.
I was going to play devil’s advocate and say that selling credentials to those seeking automatic salary increases was an important part of the revenue stream of many regular brick-and-mortar universities as well, but you did get to that point at the end. Continuing to play devil’s advocate, I’m not sure there’s a qualitative difference here. The M.Ed. degree is a profit-center both online and off, at diploma mills as well as at "respectable" [sic] universities.
(Also: some recent comments from me on how the M.Ed. effectively locks academic faculty out of rewarding jobs, constricting the academic job market further and denying students important educational opportunities.)