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
September 8th, 2009 at 3:00AM
When I was in high school, whenever a teacher spent class time fixing or fiddling with the audiovisual equipment, it was customary for a handful of students to imitate the high-pitched beep of the Emergency Broadcast System test pattern, quietly, from the back of the classroom.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:53AM
$12,000 each. Wow. I had no idea that SMART Boards were so expensive.
There are a few in the library of the university where UD and I teach, although I’ve only seen them used, without using one myself. Like PowerPoint, these boards *can* be useful if used, well, smartly–to display a particular website, or ways of navigating a book/article search through several screens, or other specific activities better demonstrated than described.
That said, I’m with Anne Fadiman: Give me a chalkboard, and give me chalk on my hands after I teach.
September 8th, 2009 at 7:24AM
I sent you the Onion link UD.
Wonder how much those touch screen thingies they use on CNN are. I would bite somebody to have one of those things in my lecture room. Next up: Powerpoint in 3D!
September 8th, 2009 at 7:42AM
Thanks, Shane.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:58PM
I know several faculty who insist on Smartboards for their classes; the boards record what they write, so a record of the lecture can be posted on the course website after class. It’s way more useful if you’re teaching something boardwork-intensive like math. (Honestly, I don’t think it’s that good for showing pictures. That’s what PowerPoint is *for*, really.)
September 8th, 2009 at 3:19PM
Michael Schrage on "sparkly tools."
September 9th, 2009 at 6:41AM
In HS it was mostly science/math teachers that wanted these. In college, professors don’t even know how to turn on a DVD player.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:02AM
lelangir: And University Diaries aims to keep it that way…