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 27th, 2009 at 5:21PM
Come on UD– you’re the one usually complaining that universities that employ crooks don’t get rid of them on the faculty web servers fast enough. Complaining that A&M "air-brushed" Watson from the finance department web pages seems a bit like trying to have your cake and eat it too.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:48PM
Google cache to the rescue. Unlike everyone else there, he seems not to have an office address.
May 27th, 2009 at 6:33PM
Not quite true, Eric the Read. I’ve always complained that universities do one of two wrong things: They either lazily leave the faculty member’s page up, even after he’s disgraced himself and they’ve let him go; or they air-brush without any explanation, Soviet style (that’s why I’ve used the term air-brush).
I came down very hard on Yeshiva U., for instance, for simply under cover of night, right after the Madoff shit hit the fan, removing all traces of him without explanation.
The correct thing, IMHO, is to put a note on the web page explaining that the faculty member is on leave, or indeed (as Yale did with one of its misbehaving business school faculty) a note explaining that the faculty member is under investigation.
May 27th, 2009 at 6:33PM
I’m not sure exactly what an executive professor is, but I suspect it’s something like an executive in residence. Probably not a tenure track person, but someone brought in for a temporary appointment for purposes of sharing their expertise from business with the faculty and students. YIKES!
May 28th, 2009 at 7:37AM
The culmination of my career will be when I become Executive Distinguished Professor of Pathognomy, Tom. The "Executive" part means "attend to my numerous and lucrative outside interests most of the time."
Hmm. I better get some lucrative outside interests.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:38AM
Fair enough, UD; perhaps I read your previous arguments a bit too breezily to pick up the nuance.
May 28th, 2009 at 4:01PM
Yes indeed, theprofessor. I would have to say that’s exactly what that means. These arrangements are often very low actual practical value to the students and faculty, but serve as an ego-stroke for the individual executive and a reputation-stroke to the school. Of course, if the executive is a felon-in-waiting, not so much benefit to the school I suppose…
May 30th, 2009 at 10:00AM
No matter how many times I read this, I am fascinated by the title, executive professor. I wonder, if a petitioned, if the school I am an adjunct at would give me the title "Executive Adjunct Professor."