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
December 29th, 2010 at 12:22PM
and of course they want to maintain that lovely set up where social security is only taken out on the first $125,000–after the first $125,000 they don’t have social security taken out on the rest of their salaries.
yet, a lowly clerical making $35,000
or mid level admins making $70,000 etc.
those schmucks-who live in the same costly SF Bay Area or LA regions- get to have social sec. taken out on their ENTIRE salary.
Disposable income is only meant for the rich.
December 29th, 2010 at 3:38PM
Well, what did their *employment agreements* say? If it didn’t include the $245K cap, but did include the pension formula, then obviously it needs to be honored. But if (as sounds more likely) it *did* include the $245K cap, then adjusting this upwards for the soon-to-be-retired would amount to giving away taxpayer money while getting nothing in return.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:18AM
When I read of/hear of people like poor professor Henderson complain of not having enough, I am reminded of the plight of the retirees who have worked like cogs in the machine all their lives, and cannot afford their full medications or 3 square meals a day. And I am reminded mostly because their sufferings are just SO disimilar! I mean, priorities! Some people cannot buy their meds when they retire, but screw that. There are some, like Henderson, who deserving better, have to suffer the ignominy–the humiliation!–of knowing that there still exists others richer than he. The intense angst the man must be going through beats any actual physical or material deprivations endured by his lesser brethren in this world. My heart breaks.
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