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
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:08AM
At least Brandeis U has a web page – news flash to Sally Rockey at NIH for posting conflicts of interest.
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:58AM
You might also need to call out the schoolmarm on this.
The article repeatedly refers to the Devil’s “Diciples.” (There’s no “sic” after that spelling.) Is that the way it’s spelled or have we come so far that even working journalists and/or their editors don’t know how to spell? Also the article describes it as a gang at one place and a club in other places. The two aren’t the same things.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:09AM
Wait. No, it can’t be that you are saying that university agents should lurk on ratemyprofessors.com to uncover dirt–or even truth–on instructors. Can it?
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:32AM
Lovell: Lurk and dirt and agents sounds very exciting, Lovell; and UD does work down the street from the Spy Museum. But I’m afraid she only means that just as lots of people on campus look at in-house professor ratings, so lots of people should be aware of RMP. I’ve always considered it a good – though far from perfect – source of information on the way professors teach.
Sometimes there aren’t enough responses on RMP to mean anything; but when you get quite a few, and when students repeat things that are easily confirmed — a professor who announces, for instance, that it’s okay not to attend the course at all; or a professor more than one student reports is chronically late and out of it — universities should pay attention.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:35AM
AYY: Another article reports that the Diciples are quite insistent on the incorrect spelling – it appears on their groovy t-shirts, etc.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:22PM
Well, with enough methamphetamine, I guess you might read too fast for silent letters.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:37PM
Michael: LOL.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:45PM
Once again: I must be doing it wrong. I cannot imagine having the time to run drugs/run with a motorcycle gang AND be a professor.
Though perhaps on meth, you don’t need sleep, so you get more done. I guess.
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:26PM
I see your point, UD–and I truly believe you do great work for our profession. For what it’s worth, one of my reviewers on RMP said I was hot! I got a chili pepper!
I’d rather have more money….
September 4th, 2011 at 9:28AM
My favorite part of the article:
“investigators seized more than a pound of methamphetamine, rifles, handguns, body armor, leather biker vests…”
One of these things is not like the others. Though it may be a fashion crime to wear a leather biker vest, esp. without a shirt.