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 12th, 2010 at 2:08AM
There are some parallels.
“The Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of fantasy novels. Located in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards”.
“The official motto of Unseen University is “Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides”, loosely translated as “Now you see it, now you don’t”
Alas, Terry Pratchett’s satirical creation probably has more dignity and purpose.
September 12th, 2010 at 2:26AM
Richard: Sounds far more dignified and purposeful.
September 12th, 2010 at 8:33AM
[…] much for the high road. 12 09 2010 I found this one via UD. At first glance, it looks like a principled stand by the Provost at Texas Tech against full-time […]
September 12th, 2010 at 9:16AM
Hey, if faculty can work at two different universities and get paid by both, why can’t they work at Phoenix and their own place?
http://ptable.blogspot.com/2009/10/old-story-still-no-answers-is-u-ever.html
September 12th, 2010 at 9:59AM
Not really on point, but I wonder if the prohibition extends to the adjuncts. It’s got merit in connection with people to whom Tech pays a lot of money and to whom it has provided tenure, but not so much with people who aren’t full-time, have no benefits and are stuck in no-advancement-possible positions.
I agree it looks bad when Phoenix won’t reveal instructor lists. On the other hand, I’d be more concerned about the character of Tech instructors if the belief is that they won’t honestly answer a straight question about their activities. I’m not naïve, but if Provost Smith believes his faculty is made up of people who would violate their own policies and lie about it, why in the world would he want them teaching young people?
September 12th, 2010 at 10:20AM
I should have made it clear that the folks mentioned in #4 were working full time, or at least being paid for it, at both places and were not adjuncts…
September 12th, 2010 at 11:50AM
Have Texas Tech faculty been receiving merit increases? What’s the point of running regressions or deriving theorems at 1.50 in the morning if you don’t get credit for it?
September 12th, 2010 at 3:24PM
Not publishing faculty lists makes it more difficult for online adjuncts at Phoenix and other online for-profits to organize.
September 12th, 2010 at 3:26PM
What would make tenured faculty anywhere desperate enough to adjunct at an online sweatshop?
September 12th, 2010 at 4:39PM
#9 -> money… {filler here, UD system doesn’t like short comments}
September 13th, 2010 at 7:38AM
I know I’ve said this before, but: I’m full-time (and then some, this semester – 15 credit hours!) tenured, and I don’t have time to mow my lawn or do my laundry some weeks.
How on earth can a person work for an online university and not shortchange students there, or shortchange students at their in-person job?
Honestly, if I were offered more money or more free time, I’d take the free time in a heartbeat.