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 15th, 2009 at 5:28AM
Some chatting over at Liberating Education about getting universities to offer a liberal arts MA in place of the so-called Executive MBA — better for the institution and better for society (not to mention those of us who would like to teach in such a program).
March 15th, 2009 at 8:47AM
Can’t remember if I’ve linked this here before, but Michael Hammer offered some interesting thoughts on business education.
March 15th, 2009 at 8:57AM
Also, MaxedOutMama has a discussion on this subject today.
March 15th, 2009 at 11:21AM
Given the generous grading in business schools (as my MBA-candidate daughter tells me, "Dad, that’s why they call it ‘B-school’!"), the fact that some students even feel a need to cheat shows an even more profound character deficit than one might think. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, most B-school profs run the gamut of grading from A to B.
March 15th, 2009 at 11:51AM
Econprof is disappointed with you, UD. Why are you so mean to B-school students? 56% of them are honest – they admit that they are cheating!
Only 44% (a significant, but nevertheless a minority) claims not to cheat!
March 15th, 2009 at 1:53PM
The business majors in my undergrad elective courses were always one of 2 sorts:
1/ Cheaters & plagiarists.
2/ The lowest scorers on any assessments.
At one school, the department office manager could guess the major of a Student Misconduct subject with about 75% chance of accuracy by asking, "Business major?"