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 15th, 2009 at 9:24AM
I got as far as the headline before I needed a breather. Time for some tea, methinks, before I venture further.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:26AM
Take it one step at a time, Eric.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:51AM
I’m torn–is this actually a put-on? What makes me wonder is the exit line:
"May you reach the summit quickly, and may your bounce back be a high one."
Naturally, a mixed metaphor, but that’s just the start. Gillespie is moving up, and THEN bouncing. Usually you bounce after DOWNWARD motion, at least in my experience.
But the thing that makes me wonder if it’s a gag is the combination of climbing to the top of the mountain, and then bouncing. It’s like hang-gliding, then flying free. It’s like sailing solo around the world, then swimming with the sharks. It’s like flying to the moon, and exploding onto the scene.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:05AM
Isn’t it also like bungee-jumping, Dave?
September 15th, 2009 at 10:33AM
Yes! Like bungee-jumping, and slipping free of the bonds that hold you!
September 15th, 2009 at 10:43AM
More sloppy writing alert: the headline promises a "Freeway to Perdition", but the article instead gives us a "Highway to Perdition". Well, which is it? Enquiring minds want to know!
(Given that we’re talking the University of Kentucky, nobody there says "Freeway", unless they’re damnyankees.)
September 15th, 2009 at 5:40PM
I really believe that you should review Calipari’s book for us, UD.
September 15th, 2009 at 6:32PM
Does that mean reading it, tp?
September 16th, 2009 at 6:34AM
I have a feeling that SOS could intuit the contents and take it down with a light skim, UD.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:23AM
Right, tp. Maybe I’ll do it. Let Annmarie Surprenant be my model…