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
May 19th, 2009 at 4:39PM
What strikes me most in this story is that there was a time when departmental secretaries acted as, you know, secretaries, doing typing chores and such for the department.
At my uni, they’re mostly office adminiscogs who like bossing around work study students while treating adjuncts like chattel. The "uneducated speech" remains though, often despite free tuition for degrees earned on-the-job.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:50AM
If she found out, any secretary worth her salt would have made sure that half his mail never arrived after that.
May 21st, 2009 at 7:18AM
Never ever annoy the department secretary.
BTW, UD, did you know Harold Kaplan?
May 21st, 2009 at 7:30AM
A little bit. My first semester at NU I took a course on James Fenimore Cooper with Kaplan and was appalled. I’d been reading Dostoevsky and company, and could not believe there were university-level courses on pure-hearted woodsmen. I think I was too young to have the confidence to drop the course (maybe it was a requirement?), so I’m pretty sure I actually spent three months of my life studying Cooper.
It’s a tragic irony that the closest fun town to my little vacation house in the Catskills is Cooperstown, where every year I must deal with statues and museums in his honor.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:01AM
I took two courses with him: one was an introduction to modern American poetry and the other an upper-level course on the imagination in American literature, focusing on Wallace Stevens and Henry James. Great courses, both of them. Lovely man, too, and a very good teacher.
I recall that Cooperstown had a very good used book store when I visited there.