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
July 19th, 2011 at 7:37AM
Well, that’s just a tactical mistake. If you turn students in for plagiarism precisely when you find it, then they are no longer around at the end of the semester to fill out the evaluations.
July 19th, 2011 at 7:40AM
My initial reaction was “Wow–the Southeastern Conference is investigating a ponzi scheme? They’ve really beefed up their enforcement.”
Oh. Not that SEC.
July 19th, 2011 at 7:40AM
Sorry–right comment, wrong post.
July 19th, 2011 at 11:12AM
One would hope that the people running a ***business school*** would have some understanding of the way measurement & incentive programs work…it should be obvious that giving too much unthinking weight to student evaluations will encourage this sort of thing, along with grade inflation and excessively-easy classes, just as unthinking weight given to customer evaluations of sales reps and sales managers could easily encourage unnecessary discounting to the point of destroying profitability. Evidently not.
In his amusing and depressing new book “Car Guys vs Bean Counters,” former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz takes some strong swipes at the business schools…He argues that in the period immediately after WWII “Business educators..felt like the cleaning and maintenance crew in an art gallery: necessary, yes, but hardly the main attraction” and they endeavored, successfully, to increase their status by over-intellectualizing business and positioning it as more of an academic discipline than it in fact is.
July 19th, 2011 at 1:59PM
If a school, or faculty, wants to make intellectual honesty important they can end plagiarism easily. At my university they have implemented a highly effective system, there is an administrator who deals with it for faculty. You just send a report with a photocopy of the student’s assignment and plagiarized document and the student is called into the assistant dean’s office to explain. No crying students in your office, the prof is not the bad guy, and students quickly learn that all plagiarism is centrally reported, even if a prof chooses to deal with it herself she is required to send in a report — to make sure repeat offenders are caught. I have found plagiarism is way down in the years since this has been implemented and, even better, I spend almost no time dealing with plagiarists.