University of Minnesota.
Thanks for the link, Bill.
University of Minnesota.
Thanks for the link, Bill.
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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.
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...
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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.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
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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...
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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
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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
June 20th, 2010 at 9:54PM
I wish every voter, and every student, to hear these 3 minutes. It is sickening to watch Minnesota’s long-standing contribution to quality education erode and erode in the name of lower taxes. So strong is the hatred of elite faculty that few taxpayers have any idea where the real bloat is.
Also nice, this student’s response (http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/96334114.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UHDaaDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU) to Governor Tim Pawlenty’s embarrassing promise (on the Daily Show and, tiresomely, everywhere else) that future students can finally get their educations from the couch and not venture into the cold to hear “boring old professors.” Good God. By contrast, Jesse Ventura was an enlightened intellectual.
June 21st, 2010 at 8:14AM
This video is a cut from an hour open forum session sponsored by the Board of Regents (BoRe) at Minnesota. Each participant gets three minutes and it is well-larded with administrative types.
To show you how seriously the BoRe takes these little tête-à-têtes, Chair Allen – he of the fast gavel – dismissed criticisms such as that leveled by Professor von Dassow as narrow in view.
“I think some of the criticism may come about from the changing emphasis on disciplines,” Allen said. “But our world is changing and we need to keep up.”
A statement such as this demonstrates a lack of understanding of higher education that is equivalent to that demonstrated by Governor Pawlenty’s recent diatribe about the University of Minnesota as a haven for boring Econ and Spanish profs that could easily be replaced by $199 courses from iCollege.
I suggest that Professor von Dassow knows a whole lot more about changing emphasis on academic disciplines than does chair Allen, whose higher education experience appears to consist of having been head bean counter for Concordia College.
Given the lack of knowledge about academics exhibited by Pfutz, our own CFO, this is scary indeed.
The U’s website indicates that Chair Allen also did time as research director for the Minnesota Taxpayer’s Association, fondly known in some parts as the Minnesota Tax Evader’s League.
And so it goes at Lake Woebegone U.
Thank God we have some good students and faculty members. And that we are starting the search for a new president. but unfortunately, the BoRe is heavily involved. They declared the last search “failed” because they did not like the candidates. Then the picked their man, president Bruininks.
June 21st, 2010 at 8:16AM
Correction, last sentence: Then they picked their own man, now president Bruininks.