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 21st, 2011 at 10:59PM
Once arrested the guys from the B-school set began to sing a lot faster than the mobsters did.
December 22nd, 2011 at 2:10AM
Mike S. Yes – they were really fast.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:07AM
A little holiday cheer for all…
Working in a Wharton wonderland
Cell phones ring
Are you buying?
Inside trade
and some lying
A profitable scheme
A hedge funder’s dream
Working in a Wharton wonderland
One hundred plus may be jailbirds
Caught on tape in their own words
Trapped by the feds
Asleep in their beds
Working in a Wharton wonderland
In the market we can place an expert
Then pretend to make a legal deal
We’ll say: “Give us info”
He’ll say; “Yogurt
Merger soon, buy
now, it’s a steal
Later on
we’ll conspire
as we dream by the fire
To count unafraid
The billions we’ve made
Working in a Wharton wonderland
In the market we can build an expert
and pretend to make the market run
We’ll make lots of dough with mister expert
Until the G-men find out what we’ve done
When we hedge
Ain’t it thrilling
As your pockets are a-filling
We’ll lie every day
The B-School way
Working in a Wharton wonderland
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:51AM
GTWMA: So wonderful that it makes me want to write one of my own. Something to do on the long drive to Boston. Thanks.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:01AM
Had the carols going this morning and the alliterative “W” just leapt out and bit me.
December 23rd, 2011 at 3:06PM
Hey! I went to Wharton, and I didn’t get ANY of this illicit money. My mistake for going into manufacturing instead finance?