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
March 16th, 2011 at 9:36PM
very sad, i had been there in the 80’s when things were pretty grim and so was quite happy for them when they seemed to be on an upswing….
March 17th, 2011 at 1:31AM
My forebears left County Clare in the 1840s for Australia. I got to visit the auld sod in the 1980s. Your term “the long stone fields of Clare” is accurate. My main impression was to recognize for the first time why they left.
March 17th, 2011 at 2:41AM
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The Cliffs of Moher give me the willies, but the sea cliffs at Dun Aengus on Inishmore of the Aran Islands are just as high, with no wall like the one they recently built at Moher.
March 17th, 2011 at 11:06AM
Is the ferry to Inishmore running this time of year? Have you been? It’s amazing. And a remarkable companion is Tim Robinson’s cartographically obsessive Stones of Aran.
March 17th, 2011 at 11:34AM
Thanks for calling Stones of Aran to my attention, Erin! I’m headed to the library now to find it.
March 18th, 2011 at 10:14AM
Erin\; \i’m on \inishmore even as we speak. \i’m relaxing in an internet cafe at the harbor; \i’m rather tired after the Dún Aenghusa walk. We’ve just seen some seals as well. Another glorious sunny day. Go figure.
March 18th, 2011 at 10:27AM
Margaret, I am jealous! And I am delighted it was a glorious day.
PP: Enjoy! Robinson just appealed to my own obsessive relationship to Irish ordinance survey maps. He writes about every rock and cliff and half-made path on the island, giving you history and geology at once.