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
October 3rd, 2011 at 4:43PM
For a confirmation of Sebald’s predictions see Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and The Fall of Liberal Education (University of Toronto Press 2011) by sociology professors James Cote and Anton Allahar of the University of Western Ontario.
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:36PM
So, when I send an email, I’m curtailing individual freedom?
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:10PM
Well, I think Sebald was a bit over the top, Pete.
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:14PM
really wanted to like Sebald’s writing after reading Eric Santer’s lovely book On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald but couldn’t connect with him as an author, the work felt dated in the way that many european cities can, that said I’m finding him an appealing prophet of the implosion of higher ed.
October 4th, 2011 at 7:01AM
Being too lordly to use a computer (presumably some luckless secretary got to type all his syllabi, etc.) and having emails printed and delivered to you by hand isn’t much of a way to streamline bureaucracy, is it?
October 4th, 2011 at 7:08AM
No, Alan, it’s not. You’re right.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:57PM
Our former President Nutkicker used to insist that a brand new, top-of-the-line PC be purchased for his personal use every year. He liked the “Pipes” screensaver and a couple of the other ones. He did not otherwise use it. His secretaries did in fact print out all of his e-mails. He wrote his answers out longhand, and they dutifully typed his comments into the reply e-mail.
Strangely enough, in his next-to-last position before coming here he had been a director of institutional computing, although those were still the days of the mainframes and VAX.