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
May 5th, 2011 at 3:09PM
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s ACE IT
Never heard of it; I did hear of the annual Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day weekend bar crawl; only one person was killed this year. Fifty percent of Champaign’s new mayor’s election campaign was funded by the owner of a campus bar.
(http://tinyurl.com/3g6m8y2)
Quick! Let’s put on a theatrical performance.
May 5th, 2011 at 3:36PM
is this the Glee model of psycho-education? only people in res-life, last refuge (I can only hope) of the “icebreaker” could imagine that theatrical performances and older students would make a favorable impression on the youth of today..
May 5th, 2011 at 4:16PM
francofou, dmf: Yeah – you’re right. Don’t want to be seen as endorsing the psychodrama approach either — though wouldn’t you agree that if real research shows it works best, one would want to hold one’s nose and accept it?
May 5th, 2011 at 4:38PM
Get with the times! Online education helps in so many other areas, why couldn’t it teach students about drinking responsibly?
http://www.nchip.org/alcohol/
And what about that movement? Collaborating with 13 schools nationwide is a bigger step forward than a theatrical presentation.
May 5th, 2011 at 5:39PM
akj: Thanks, akj, but if what you’re about is keeping with the times, I’ll head for a few centuries back.
May 5th, 2011 at 9:19PM
UD, sure but one won’t find real research in these matters as no one is doing any followup studies on actual (not reported) behaviors, one of the many ironies of academic psychology is that their studies show that people tend to be unreliable self-reporters and yet the vast majority of their studies depend on voluntary surveys/interviews for their data.
May 6th, 2011 at 7:30AM
Skits! That’s the ticket.
May 6th, 2011 at 8:17AM
On my campus, all faculty and staff had to take an online HR class to teach us how not to sexually harass people.
We had to pass an exam. No kidding. The thing is…anyone with the IQ of a clam could figure out what answers were the “desired” answers.
Also, relatives of mine who teach in Illinois had to take an online ethics test. (Instituted by disgraced former governor Blagojevich). Apparently the questions were such that if you were devious enough to be unethical, you’d be devious enough to pass the test.
And they say online education is the future….