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
November 26th, 2011 at 10:27AM
UD is a huge Obama fan? How can this be?
Earlier today UD posted this,
http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=33711
, quoting extensively from bloomberg.com an article wherein those on the Board of G-S are taken to task (rightly) for failing to condemn and investigate Goldman’s egregious fraud.
Sadly, on that matter there is another party whose failing is far greater than that of the G-S board.
His name is US Attorney General Eric Holder and he serves at the pleasure of one President Obama.
The same situation holds in many other similar cases, and there have been almost no criminal prosecutions precisely because Obama and Holder don’t have the stomach for it.
Surely UD is familiar with William K. Black? (And if not, you’ll like him when you get a chance to hear him.)
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/19/former_financial_regulator_william_black_occupy
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/bill-black-the-high-price-of-ignorance.html
http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2011/09/william-black-why-nobody-went-to-jail.html
November 26th, 2011 at 11:55AM
Mike S.: I’m a big William Black fan. I’m opening the links you’ve sent now.
November 27th, 2011 at 3:20AM
There’s a financial and fiscal crisis in much of the developed world, Congress cannot quite agree on a budget, there are revolutions going on in Libya, Egypt and Syria, etc., and you want the US president to spend time on fixing university sports?
November 27th, 2011 at 11:36AM
Well, DM, to be fair he’s not exactly spending a great deal of time solving any of those problems either. He kinda needs to go into the next election with one victory, eh? Why not reforming college sports?
November 27th, 2011 at 12:53PM
Or killing Osama Bin Laden?
November 27th, 2011 at 5:23PM
Yeah, with his BARE HANDS! He’s Chuck Norris!
Meanwhile, what he actually did this weekend was attend a basketball game and play his 30th round of golf of the year with his buds. 88th of his presidency, but who’s counting?
November 27th, 2011 at 7:19PM
Hey yeah i said he was a jock…