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 18th, 2011 at 2:59AM
The NCAA President’s words (out of deference to UD’s sensibility I refrain from saying his name) give new meaning to the term mealy mouthed. I was reminded of the oversight body for continuing medical education (ACCME) and its toothless response to corrupt impresarios.
March 18th, 2011 at 3:31AM
Thank you, Bernard, for keeping his name off my blog. When he was a corporate-board-riding university president, I recorded his name. But enough is enough.
March 18th, 2011 at 8:15AM
Excellent. I was smiling to myself this morning in thinking about UD’s annual installment regarding male menses. I understand you are traveling, UD, but please do continue if you can.
March 18th, 2011 at 9:02AM
Why so hard on He Whose Name Will Not Be Mentioned? Just about every president of a so-called big time NCAA program deserves blame in this matter.
This will only stop when/if these gutless presidents put in a Judge Landis type to do what they are too cowardly to do themselves.
I do understand UD’s total disgust for HWNWNBM as his performance at his previous place of employment makes this development unsurprising.
March 19th, 2011 at 3:17PM
Actually I’m bothered by Duncan’s statement. A governmental official shouldn’t be telling the NCAA who should and should not be in their tournaments. Besides, graduation rates don’t tell us much about whether the athlete should be in school or whether he is being educated by the school, and people don’t graduate for any of a number of reasons, some of which are no fault of the school. There has to be a better indicator that graduation rates.
March 20th, 2011 at 8:40AM
AYY, the NCAA, as a tax exempt organization, receives a huge benefit from that status, which requires them to act in ways that create community, not private, benefit.
Furthermore, the universities that are member organizations of the NCAA are also often tax exempt organizations, as well as receive billions of dollars supporting their institutions through federal programs (75% of student aid comes through federal dollars, for example).
The idea that government shouldn’t be speaking out and making sure these organizations toe the line is loony.
Graduate rates are by no means perfect, but you start somewhere and then you work to improve. And even imperfect measures convey information. When you see a team graduate 8 percent of its players, you know something’s wrong. Using an imperfect measure can help motivate the institutions to come to the table and work toward a better measure.
March 20th, 2011 at 4:19PM
GTWMA,
Fiddlesticks. Tax exempt status is a function of what’s in the internal revenue code. All the NCAA or its members need to do is to comply with the requirements of the code, not with the philosophical views of any particular government official.
If the member organizations receive billions of dollars through federal programs they must comply with the requirements of those programs.
Government wasn’t speaking out. Government is our elected representatives, not some political appointee. If government wants to speak out it can easily do so by passing a law.
As for “something” being wrong with an 8 per cent graduation rate, that’s not an answer. If you can’t identify that the something is within the proper scope of Duncan’s authority, then you havent’ shown that he should be speaking out.
March 21st, 2011 at 6:13AM
Must have missed the day when the executive branch was written out of the government. Sorry.