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 11th, 2009 at 10:30AM
A couple of years ago, there was a fire on an aircraft carrier that did substantial amounts of damage and injured several sailors. The fire was caused by a sailor smoking in a paint locker, totally against regulations and common sense.
The captain of the ship wasn’t the one doing the smoking, and he certainly never told anybody that it was OK to do so. But he lost his job.
Maybe university sports programs could use some Navy-style accountability.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:44PM
Same story at the University of Illinois. After the admissions scandal, a new board of trustees has approved a new admissions policy, as if the fault lay with the admissions officers, when in fact they tried to resist the meddling and corruption from above.
The faculty, courageous as usual, has said nothing, except for 48 highly paid people who wrote a letter defending the party guilty of short-changing hundreds of applicants.
The faculty senate has delayed a vote on the matter until Monday. I wonder how they will vote: make a strong recommendation that the guilty parties be fired? decide that they want to give the new trustees a chance to make a determination?
September 12th, 2009 at 10:50AM
The defense is all the more misguided because, as I understand it, Bowden hasn’t really done hands-on coaching for years. He oversees the program in which the problems have arisen; that’s his job, and the failures are his responsibility. He’s been hanging on to set the record for coaching wins, and he’s stayed too long — a common human failing, and human tragedy.
On the other hand, his rival, Joe Paterno, has run his program so as to contribute to the long-term improvement of Penn State; whereas FSU, once considered the best university in Florida, has lost ground during Bowden’s tenure.
He’s not winning this one.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:21PM
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