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 27th, 2011 at 11:01AM
This makes me sad. I did a postdoc at UMass back in the day – the location is gorgeous and the faculty and staff (and many of the students) were great. But even then, everyone knew to steer clear of the frat row starting at about 4pm Fridays, and all the dorms on any game day. But get rid of the whole university? Please, UD.
September 27th, 2011 at 11:05AM
Full disclosure:
When I was a young lad, living in Central Massachusetts, readying myself for college, my parents gave me this advice:
“You will apply to UMASS-Amherst as your safety school. However, you will not go there.”
Looking back, I think I probably paid way too much for my college education at a fancy-dancy private SLAC that prides itself on giving its students miserable grades to combat grade inflation. I know quite a few people who went to UMASS-Amherst and have done quite well for themselves–better than me by some measures. Having said that, I find the rioting at these large unis to be quite despicable–I’m looking at you, too, UMD-College Park–and I’m amazed that it goes on and on and on and on, generation after generation.
Then again, its not like UMASS hasn’t rolled with a gangster or two in its lifetime. Whuddya expect?
September 27th, 2011 at 11:52AM
Not get rid of it, Anonymous. Make it the Univ. of Mass. Online. It’s already happening – with no help from me.
September 27th, 2011 at 11:55AM
Things will surely improve when the move up to FBS football is complete.
September 27th, 2011 at 12:09PM
To be sure, Mr Punch.
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Anonymous 1 says:
…steer clear of the frat row starting at about 4pm Fridays, and all the dorms on any game day.
You advise folks to steer clear of all the dorms on any game day (which includes games like the World Series, not played by local teams but which does occur during term time). Sounds like a good enough reason to shut it down as a residential campus to me. UMassOnline.
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