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
October 6th, 2009 at 7:12AM
"Get Smart" I can understand.
"The Love Boat"?–not unless he is a prof. of leisure studies.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:55AM
These are the sorts of purchases that are more appropriate for the library to make, not an individual professor or a specific department.
And the overnight delivery charge is just obnoxious.
Also: aren’t business profs usually ridiculously well-paid? Why didn’t he buy these for his own personal collection (thus using his own money) and just use those short clips as needed WITHOUT needing to be reimbursed?
I just keep thinking of all the adjuncts I know who paid for their own photocopying…
October 6th, 2009 at 11:44AM
I agree with the Professor. Get Smart passes my audit, but the Love Boat? Gopher and Julie do not compare favorably with Max and 99, no matter how you look at it…
Yes we business profs are indeed ridiculously well-paid. It’s due in part to a concept called supply and demand, which even those in the arts and humanities can’t suspend completely, although they try mightily. If departments in the arts and humanities would stop churning out hundreds of PhDs that have no hope of ever securing full-time tenure track employment, salaries in the arts would likely rise to the ranks of the ridiculously well paid too. Gotta go spend my signing bonus and pick up my new car!
October 6th, 2009 at 11:47AM
…as a quick follow up… $219 for the whole Get Smart series? THAT’s value for money!
October 7th, 2009 at 5:54PM
Hey, Isaac Washington, the Love Boat’s bartender, had a great deal of insight to offer about customer relationship management.