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 15th, 2010 at 3:09PM
I expect better of economics professors, particularly at solid departments such as North Carolina’s (we’ve had a few of their faculty through as speakers). Economists, in particular, ought to understand the argument that adjusted for risk, assistant coaches cannot do better than economics professors. Yes, the successful assistant coaches can have short spells of high income, but subject to termination at any time, and frequently after a long apprenticeship holding tackling dummies at East Millpond High. But — to note a frequent UD point, most Ph.D.s secure a tenured appointment someplace eventually.
Economists also, in particular, have some understanding of what a positional arms race is, and why the use of resources to secure athletic position is likely to be unprofitable. But you don’t see many economics professors augmenting the supply of football coaches (which will in time depress wages) by trading in their SPSS and Maple V for a tackling dummy at East Millpond High.
September 15th, 2010 at 4:35PM
“UD asks her students to avoid … generalizations”
“society does not pay” “[UNC] does”
The shenanigans in higher education are making UD sound like a Marxist.
September 15th, 2010 at 5:00PM
Given this table
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-coaches-contracts-database.htm
and story
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-03-09-coaches-salaries_N.htm?csp=obinsite
it’s fair to say that society pays them more…especially since their salaries are heavily subsidized through public subsidies to not-for-profit universities,
September 16th, 2010 at 1:34AM
UD, I seem to remember something about UNC’s situation being very bizarre.
As I remember the story, a donor made a bequest to UNC, the terms of which were that half goes to education and half goes to augment the salaries of football coaches. Now why anyone in his right mind would care about the salaries of football coaches after he dies is something that’s beyond my ability to explain, but that’s how I remember it. Don’t have the link.
September 16th, 2010 at 7:08AM
I’ll look for that, AYY. It’s not ringing any bells.
September 18th, 2010 at 3:33AM
I’ll try to do this as a link:
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090806aac.html
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