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 12:36PM
Cases of misrepresentation and lack of transparency aside, you can’t drive successfully using only the rear-view mirror. People thinking about going into some field that is HOT at a particular moment in time should consider the possibility that lots of other people are thinking the same thing, and that excess supply will make the hotness per capita a lot less appealing.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:49AM
Accreditation is a form of self-regulation, so all accreditation is “self-regulation.” You’d prefer to put it in the hands of the folks in Washington who brought us the for-profit scandals, but that doesn’t seem like such a good idea. Furthermore, it’s simply not true that the ABA will accredit anything; there are a lot of law schools that aren’t accredited, and in fact some of the doubts about the UMass school (opening today!)revolve around whether it can be achieve accreditation.
BTW, how’s the job market for PhDs in English?
August 16th, 2010 at 8:00AM
Oh, I don’t want Washington doing the accrediting, Mr Punch. Isn’t there a way to put together a relatively independent body made up in part of critics of the traditional accrediting approach?
You and I know that the UMass rip-off will be accredited.
The job market for PhDs in English is horrible. Lots of programs should shut down, at least temporarily, or radically shrink. The situation is as unconscionable as the law school situation, and I’ve written about it on this blog.
August 16th, 2010 at 3:48PM
By the time the hot field of the month has come to the attention of the media, it has been completely saturated with prospective students, and clueless administrators are rushing to open more programs that will turn out hordes of unemployable graduates. This is more or less a law of nature as far as I can see.
August 16th, 2010 at 5:14PM
[…] This article suggests that the focus on the bad behavior of many for-profit institutions can act as a red herring, distracting attention from the larger problem: “colleges of every stripe are soaking up tons of societal resources and saddling students with excessive debt loads in the face of dubious job prospects.” The authors note that “In their thirst for the blood of the institutions that are preying on less than 10% of all students, Congress and other critics are often ignoring similar exploitation by nonprofit institutions that enroll more than 90% of postsecondary students.” (Sad story about the experience of some law school graduates here–via Margaret Soltan) […]
August 16th, 2010 at 6:20PM
I think it’s likely that the UMass-Dartmouth Law School will eventually be accredited, but in its previous incarnation as the Southern New England School of Law (1981-2010) it couldn’t get ABA approval (though it had NEASC regional accreditation). And ABA accreditation was its goal — it was originally established to serve Rhode Island, which then had no law school, and a law against operating a non-ABA-accredited law school. The idea, I believe, was that SNESL would open in Massachusetts, gain accreditation, then move to RI (across the street from its first location). But Roger Williams U. aced them out.