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
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:58AM
Am I missing something, UD? The article you link says that Brian Lane & his colleagues are in the FILM department, not Creative Writing.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:12AM
My mistake, Mark. Thanks for the correction. Note that most of the faculty in this department, as in creative writing, is made up of creative writers — people writing films rather than novels and poems. There are also historians of the cinema, technical people, etc., on the faculty, but it is mainly made up of writers.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:59AM
I recently quit a grad program in Communications because a lot of the recent hires (some of whom sat on a grade appeal committee) had spurious credentials.
Some of these people originally got hired to teach the production/professional courses, were liked by the standing faculty, and then got hired when a line opened up. Many of them have Master’s degrees in unrelated fields (e.g. MBA, Master’s of Liberal Arts, Management, etc.).
Their academic experience is often nil (before the adjunct gigs) and they tended toward the anti-intellectual. In their eyes (and one must presume the eyes of the Ph.D.-holders on the faculty), professional experience trumps academic excellence. I don’t understand why hires cant have both.
Silly me.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:46PM
It could be worse. Here in the ATL we had a dude pretending to be a doctor.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16427262/detail.html
"I was told [by Piedmont Hospital] at the time he was arrested, he and a nurse were taking a patient from the emergency room into intensive care," said Tammi Perteet.
Oh yeah, and the fake gynecologist from……Florida! Where else.
Police: Fake Doctor May Have Performed Gynecological Exams