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
December 5th, 2011 at 6:17PM
I read Walter Russell Mead every day, and usually think he’s very sensible, as well as a very engaging writing. His scorn is well packaged – take a look at his posts about Kyoto Protocol! His views about tits and money, well – my kid # 1, who is perfect in every way, is all ready to paint his face with school colors. My wife and I – I did Young Democrats and chess club in school, she did choir. We are bewildered. And I think Mead is right that the road to his loyalty runs through athletics.
I’m going to detour through an FDA story. Baby food: too salty, and it’s bad for babies. The right saltiness for babies is utterly bland for mommies who put a little dab on their wrists and lick it to see if it is okay. So – if Beechnut did it right, Gerber would salt theirs up and crush them in the market. FDA got them all together and said, get the level down to X or we will regulate you. And they did. Nobody could have done it alone.
I see the NCAA as a remarkable bunch of hypocritical greedheads who lie about their real goals. But I’m inclined to think that if reformed or if a substitute organization was put in place, it could ratchet college sports down to a level not too far from today’s club sports, and that would let my kid have someone to scream for and remember fondly as an alum.
I went to Berkeley in what I now think are glory days. We regularly lost to Stanford in the Big Game. Ohio State regularly crushed us, too. One of the guys on the football team was a biochemistry major! The stated goals of the NCAA were more or less met. Scholar-athletes, yah. So this is sort of a muddy and meliorative claim that the goal would be to get people who actually had the goals the NCAA claims to have into power in an organization to control college sports. Maybe more rules would help – remove the charitable deduction from moneys raised for stadia. No team can have an SAT average more than half a standard deviation below the average of the school. A coach whose team fails various strictures gets banned from coaching employment for a couple of years. Make NCAA’s lies about its role come true.
Can’t hurt, right?