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 26th, 2011 at 12:36PM
I try to explain the “It’s a big massive, fat…” thing to students (ESPECIALLY to do it when other students are speaking or presenting). But sadly, few people “get” it. (At least in my non-majors classes. I do see some glimmers of hope in my majors classes that “going low-tech” in the classroom is a good idea).
I admit I’ve gotten to the point in one class this year where I’ve given up yelling at the two regular offenders. They’re failing anyway; there’s nothing more I can do to them. At least they sit in the back and don’t disturb anyone else too much.
April 27th, 2011 at 7:07AM
You can’t throw them out, ricki? That’s what I do to the chronic offenders–or rather, did. Do it a couple of times, and word gets out. Of course, you then have to deal with the issues of burning resentment from the phone-addicted, but I can live with that.
April 27th, 2011 at 7:52AM
I dunno. We have such a “student-centered” administration, and I’m up for promotion next year, that I’m frankly a little afraid to.
I figure, they’ll eventually learn that there’s a link between chronic texting and chronic Fs.
At least they’re not watching YouTube videos on a laptop – as one of my research students complains a student does in one of her other classes.
April 27th, 2011 at 12:42PM
Sometimes one doesn’t need to throw them out. I told the petulant sorority girl in the third row that I would be compelled to split her participation grade 50-50 with her texting partner if she kept it up.
I was once the professor of the year for her sorority, Lambda Lipstick Mascara. I am afraid that I won’t be a repeat winner in the next couple of years. Perhaps Alpha Athletic Ponytail will come through, though.