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
August 1st, 2011 at 10:22PM
If you’re in need of an instant diploma,
Or your ass lacks a big hematoma,
The U of NV
Can provide a degree
Or sex banned in straight-laced Oklahoma.
August 2nd, 2011 at 6:11AM
ass lacks a big hematoma – – Good work, Dave.
August 2nd, 2011 at 7:05AM
Come, let us reason together
And see if we figure out whether
A school letter sweater
Would serve our needs better
In neoprene, vinyl, or leather.
August 2nd, 2011 at 7:10AM
Our old friend the Marquis de Sade
Said “Many consider it odd
That I work as a dean
But it lets me be mean.
I’ve been issued a school cattle prod.”
August 2nd, 2011 at 7:40AM
Incidentally, my count of ribald verse contributed to UD rapidly approaches 100. If academics keep getting themselves involved in sex scandals, I’ll be there in no time.
August 2nd, 2011 at 9:57AM
I’ve never quibbled if it was ribald.
August 2nd, 2011 at 6:37PM
About fifteen years ago we had an administrative upheaval and my university ended up with a shortage of deans and a new Provost. I happened to cross paths with the new Provost shortly thereafter, and was asked whether I might want to become a dean. My startled reply can be summarized as, “Why ever would I want to?” The answer was, “Well as a dean you get to beat people up, instead getting beaten up yourself.” ‘Nuff said! I declined the offer . . .
August 3rd, 2011 at 11:41AM
Interestingly, a few years ago the president of a reputable French university was convicted for… pimping his girlfriend in some sado-masochistic circles (I’m unsure about the details).
Now, Margaret, the problem with diploma mills is that they are diploma mills, not the sex lives of their upper management. Let’s not act like these American universities from the 1950s that took so much interest in the private life of their female students as to dismiss those who cohabited with men.
August 3rd, 2011 at 11:57AM
Oh you misunderstand me, DM. I have not the slightest problem with this man’s sex life.