…on the scourge of the laptop in the classroom.
Yes, it’s one of many such pieces UD links to on this blog. Eventually laptops will disappear from the college classroom. This blog is chronicling their disappearance.
…on the scourge of the laptop in the classroom.
Yes, it’s one of many such pieces UD links to on this blog. Eventually laptops will disappear from the college classroom. This blog is chronicling their disappearance.
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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
April 21st, 2011 at 7:43AM
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/its-not-just-rude-its-ruining-your-brain
April 21st, 2011 at 11:57AM
What I think is particularly disturbing is that so many people seem to be unwilling to be alone with their thoughts, even for a brief period of time. Yeah, some classes are boring…whatever happened to daydreaming, or jotting down a few notes (on a piece of paper!) for a project you’re working on for another class, or for that matter fantasizing about the attractive person in the next row?
It seems like at least 50% of the time, someone driving in a congested supermarket parking lot will be *talking on the phone*, even in the midst of incompetently attempting to park a cumbersome SUV.
When the telegraph was first introduced, a journalist remarked “This extraordinary discovery leaves…no elsewhere…it is all *here*.”
If wired communications reduced the sense of *elsewhere*, does the abuse of wireless communications reduce the sense of the *here and now*? It seems so.
April 21st, 2011 at 12:34PM
This is common of course, but it’s no less enlightening.
I’m very curious to know how this will work out for the student who failed the Psych exam. I’d love to hear the professor’s response. If it were me–and many others I’m sure–the student would have no recourse but summer school, or just another Psych class to ensure graduation.