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
March 16th, 2010 at 12:01AM
Victor Vroom is well-known in the area of motivation. By all accounts, he’s a nice guy. He’s nearly 80 now I think.
The theory of motivation he worked is in direct contrast to Skinner’s reinforcement idea. Edward Deci, who has another great name, was a post-doc with Vroom. He developed the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and ways to measure them. Intrinsic motivation seems to be more important.
This leads, at least in my mind, to the concept of “flow” popularized by Csikszentmihalyi, yet another great name.
I am glad you brought up Vroom, who I think is underappreciated. It’s too bad about his chair.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:29AM
Most-esteemed Victor H. Vroom
Has locked himself into his room.
His well-endowed chair
Is threatened–no fair!–
Since the BearingPoint deal went kaboom.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:38AM
Kaboom is an excellent way to end any limerick, Dave. You’ve made me feel competitive. I shall try a Vroomerick of my own.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:51AM
Mr. Management, Victor H. Vroom,
Rode a big fancy chair for the boom.
Then the market went bust
And the chair turned to dust.
Now he sits on his ass in the gloom.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:42AM
Stone and Soltan, limericks for all occasions…
March 16th, 2010 at 11:14AM
In Holland and also in Rome
For the pious there’s always a dom-
icile to be found,
where the spelling is sound
and makes sense of the good Mr. Vroom.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:41AM
Hm. I see, Jeremy. Wonderful Vroomerick, plus a correction – we rhymesters aren’t pronouncing Vroom right, are we?
March 18th, 2010 at 11:24PM
BearingPoint Chair Professor Vroom
Is facing his plight with aplomb
motivation intrinsic
keeps him from feeling sick
As endowed chairs disappear like foam