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 26th, 2011 at 12:54PM
As an adult educator, I subscribe to the philosophy of creating a community of learners. Meaning that although the professor is a conduit of some knowledge, adult students come to the classroom with wealth of knowledge and experience. Their contribution to the class is just as valuable as the professors. Even if powerpoint or no other technology is used, shouldn’t the voices of the students be heard in addition to that of the professors?
May 27th, 2011 at 7:31AM
I’m not sure about “just as valuable.” If they’re taking art history (my occasional experience with adult learners) the students are typically interesting people, well-travelled and museumed-up, but they have seldom made critical comparisons between the things they have looked at. So the voices of students are a genuine contribution, but are not as valuable. Otherwise, why pay me? Why not just have an art-appreciation kaffee-klatsch?
May 27th, 2011 at 11:57AM
As students sink into debt, I feel honour-bound to provide something that they can’t get from each other or from the text, even as I do the less than desirable online course (I teach in the States from overseas). I do provide opportunities for them to share and offer what they have to each other, but I’m quite sensitive to my student working 12 hour shifts on the weekends to pay for her education. Even when the institution won’t pay me a fair wage, I still feel that I owe her. I wish the institution felt similarly about my efforts. It is a dilemma for me, but one for which, so far, I won’t shortchange my students (though some wish I would back off a bit!).
May 31st, 2011 at 1:32PM
I was thinking more of a spirited discussion or debate on the topic. A forum where ideas are voiced and challenged instead of the professor being the all-knowing-of-information. All experts in the field do not mean experts in facilitating a class discussion.