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
April 19th, 2009 at 12:00PM
Although I don’t mind our internal weekly news sheet, our counterpart to the Harvard Gazette, being on paper, what really gets me is the barrage of announcements for lectures and other events. No longer are they xeroxed on regular paper, but more commonly they are custom-designed and professionally printed on heavy stock. Realize that these are internal to the university and not intended to create an impression externally. I’ll attend if I’m interested, not if I get a flashy card or glossy flyer. In terms of external propaganda, I don’t get that much from Harvard, perhaps since I’m not an undergraduate alum, but what I do get is an immense amount of propaganda from other schools, obviously in the hope that I’ll remember them when it’s time to fill out the questionnaire from U.S. News. There is a recycling bin in the mailroom where these go.
April 19th, 2009 at 5:41PM
So THAT’S why my (and the Dean’s) mailbox is chock full of magazines (and sometimes other marketing gimmicks, like baseballs and coasters) from other institutions on a daily basis. US News surveys already filled out. Lots of wasted postage. Sigh.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:04AM
We no longer get campus phone books or calendars that we actually can use. Instead, we get four-color glossy mini-mags touting this or that strategic initiative or highlighting our commitments to truth, athletics, justice, the American Way, athletics, diversity, hiring proteges of trustees, protection of students from demon rum, and–did I mention athletics?
April 20th, 2009 at 9:10AM
AAD, yes, the baseball, from a school in Ohio. I got that one too. Gave it to the neighbor’s kid. Not a good marketing idea, since odd-shaped boxes in my mailbox tend to alarm me. My U.S. News survey is still sitting on my desk but no amount of glossy literature or baseballs is going to affect my opinion, certainly not positively.