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 19th, 2011 at 7:14PM
I think the hockey model in Canada has it right, or at least better; the kids are drafted while they are still in school, and even after they are drafted, they can still play at the “amateur” level, either college, or major junior league. The majority of the major-junior players attend high school or community college (CEGEP in Quebec). The players can go “pro” but still qualify for amateur international competitions. And most teams keep players in the major juniors instead of into the professional minors. There is an elaborate professional minor league system in hockey, much like baseball.
I think it is a travesty what they demand from these boys (because they are still boys in the majority of cases). But I also think that it is a travesty what happens to the rest of the student population who aren’t star athletes, or even athletes at all.
March 20th, 2011 at 1:31PM
I think it’s important to note that (1) football and basketball are the two major sports actually developed within the higher education system (and while colleges are “minor leagues” now, it used to be true that the pro leagues were formerly “exhibitions” featuring ex-college stars); and (2) that these are the two popular sports that place a huge premium on unusual physical size, and thus perhaps most at odds inherently with the student-athlete ideal.
March 6th, 2012 at 9:21AM
That’s kinda sad in fact because basically we can’t rely on anything in this life including sports. These kids don’t study properly cause they know that football or basketball are the first priorities. But what would they do in case of trauma or some other factors that can deprive them from doing sports??We should all think about it I think. Thanks for the post, Dave