Saying goodbye to La Kid, who’s studying in Ireland this year.
Read all about it.
Saying goodbye to La Kid, who’s studying in Ireland this year.
Read all about it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
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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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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
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Money Law
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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.
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 27th, 2010 at 6:36PM
I spent a year in Galway teaching on a Fulbright. It was a lovely town then and still is. She couldn’t find a better place to study. Be sure to go over and spend time in the West of Ireland while she’s there.
August 27th, 2010 at 6:47PM
Wild horses couldn’t keep me away, Dennis.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:12PM
I visited Galway for a conference about 20 years ago, and I took a day off to drive out to the Connemara district. Wildly beautiful, but that day I also understood why my forebears left and ended up in Australia during the 1840s.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:17PM
It is wildly beautiful. I’ve been to the west coast a lot, and love it madly. Can’t wait to go back.
August 28th, 2010 at 6:37PM
“Ireland, ah, the grass was so green and the sky was so blue…”
“And why did you leave Ireland, Grandpa,” we small children would ask.
“I was starvin'” he’d reply. And we’d all laugh uproariously.
Grandpa = my grandfather, an immigrant (~1905) Irish plumber.
August 29th, 2010 at 4:03PM
It’s the birth of a Soltan Blogging Dynasty!
August 29th, 2010 at 4:26PM
I dunno, Crimson05er. She’s so busy with her other stuff – Facebook, texting, tweets … I think she lacks my single-mindedness.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:23PM
Of course. I should have realized you would already have visited Nora Barnacle’s home there and looked for Michael Furey’s grave, not to mention Thor Ballylee and all the other Yeats sites.
September 1st, 2010 at 4:45PM
Dennis: Actually, though I’ve been there a lot, I haven’t visited any Nora sites. Lots of Yeats places, though.