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
August 15th, 2010 at 7:36AM
In vague terms, both Lew and I are employees of the State of Kansas, so I have some thoughts. On the one hand, Lew makes $4.4 million a year, or $85,000 a week. Presuming he puts in 40 hours a week, his time costs the University of Kansas $2000 an hour. Driving three hours someplace and three hours back means he’s paid $12000 while listening to Rick Pitino’s inspirational books on his car’s CD player. From the university’s point-of-view, it might then be worth it to have him doing productive things for five hours and on a private plane for one.
Of course, that’s all based on the assumption that Lew Perkins is worth $4.4 million a year. Since he’s being hastily shoved out the door at KU, it seems KU’s own administration doesn’t think so.
Here’s the other thing. Kansas State University and the University of Kansas suffer from bad airport connections. It’s 45 minutes from Lawrence to the Kansas City airport, which isn’t a great one anyway. Manhattan used to have it worse–two hours to Kansas City or Wichita. Things have improved with regular jet service from Manhattan to Dallas (plus free parking), but the point is that those who can fly by private plane on somebody’s else dime, and like the ego stroke it provides, have an additional reason to do so from the pain-in-the-ass factor of just getting to the airport.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:01AM
Oh, and I have to include this bit from Sports Illustrated:
“In 2004, the NCAA outlawed the use of private jets in shuttling recruits to campus. That restriction hurt some schools more than others. Since then, the Wildcats have flown prospects into Kansas City, then driven them the 132 miles to Manhattan, past endless fields of sorghum and soy beans and amber waves of grain, a journey during which many a blue-chipper from urban parts of say, Florida or Texas, has undoubtedly mused to himself, Man, this place is out in the sticks!”
August 15th, 2010 at 9:56AM
Hey, our football coach used a helicopter last year for some local recruiting.
That has, fortunately, stopped after the outcry.
August 29th, 2010 at 9:17PM
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