… this is excellent writing. Not the initial email from the student. The initial email’s okay, but nothing special.
Galloway’s response. Read that one.
… this is excellent writing. Not the initial email from the student. The initial email’s okay, but nothing special.
Galloway’s response. Read that one.
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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.
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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.
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It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
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There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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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.
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Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
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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...
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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.
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University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:58AM
Wow, not just a B-school professor who can write, but a *brand strategy* guy who can write…generally there seems to be more than the usual verbal fog surrounding such individuals.
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:06AM
I know – I said to Mr UD this morning – “I’m always putting down the B-school boys… I take it all back.”
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:18PM
My favorite remark from the comments section:
“I have no words for the awesomeness that is Galloway’s response.”
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:28PM
LOL. I liked that one too.
My favorite bit from the piece:
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:06PM
Really? I’m apparently in the minority on this one–the entire rest of the internet seems to love it–but I thought that as soon as he stopped describing the incident and started giving the student advice it got pretty dreadful. If a student sent me an email like that I probably wouldn’t say anything about it, but inwardly I’d hope they grew out of that internet style before they started writing for business. I mean, seriously, how many ellipses does one piece of writing need?
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:30PM
I agree, Christopher — the weakest part is the end when he starts dispensing advice. The piece is not without fault.
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:25PM
[…] But apparently most people do not agree with me. […]
February 23rd, 2010 at 5:48PM
but the advice was good…
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:50PM
[…] Ah, entitlement Jump to Comments Show up to a class for which you’re not registered an hour after it begins, be sent away by the professor, write him an email in complaint, and what would you expect to happen? Evidently not this, but it sure makes for fun reading. (Hat tip to University Diaries.) […]