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
September 5th, 2010 at 10:43PM
Wisconsin again, eh?
Stand by for a statement by Robert Golden, Dean of the UW Medical School.
But don’t hold your breath – Dr. Golden is one of the folks who wrote to the Wall Street Journal back in 2006 in defense of the indefensible Charles Nemeroff.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:48AM
UD you’re missing the even bigger story. You don’t have to hunt down faculty business interests to find pill mill enterprises involving universities.
The biggest pill mills are right on campus: university student health centers.
They hand out prescriptions for Ritalin, Adderall and other widely abused amphetamines with no more thought than stamping books at the library checkout. No parental notification required. These pills are so widely shared among undergraduates as study aids that up to 35% of students at some universities are estimated to use illegal stimulants.
http://www.dancespirit.com/articles/1908
http://mustangdaily.net/adderall-study-drugs-abundant-on-campus/
http://mustangdaily.net/an-academic-edge-with-potential-for-addiction/
September 6th, 2010 at 11:01AM
Thanks for that reminder, MikeM.
September 7th, 2010 at 11:24AM
[…] that the whole Marla Ahlgrimm thing (background here) is nothing, don’t mean a thing, fuck off. Sandy Wilcox, president of the UW Foundation […]
September 8th, 2010 at 7:05AM
It’s funny reading about pill mills living in thailand, where pretty much any drug you want (especially the highly abused ones) can be bought from a pharmacist with no prescription. Takes pill mill to a whole new level.
September 8th, 2010 at 7:29AM
Sex, drugs, and… I don’t know about rock and roll, js, but you’re clearly living in one of those very special places…
September 8th, 2010 at 1:31PM
[…] For last week’s university pill mill story, go here. […]