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
February 12th, 2012 at 9:55AM
The comparison between home-schooled children of computers to Exeter is a lousy comparison and would probably rate a lousy grade if one of your own students made it.
The comparison is between home schooling and attending some 4000 student mega high school where students shuffle between classes. The students at the top of such schools succeed but most of just lost in the shuffle.
It is like your comparisons between non-traditional colleges and the Ivy League when the real comparison should be between non-traditional college and third-tier failure factories.
February 12th, 2012 at 10:04AM
superdestroyer: I wasn’t talking about home schooling. Home schooling is a whole other thing. I was talking about corporate-run, for-profit, cyber-exclusive, in-house education. I think the comparisons I’m making are reasonable ones.
February 12th, 2012 at 10:59AM
Why is it automatically an abuse that essays are graded in India? I’m sure it wouldn’t be very hard to find quite a few Indians whose English abilities exceed those of the bottom 50% of US public school teachers. The graders in this case may or may not be competent, but simply stating that they are in India doesn’t resolve the question automatically.
“Students emailing a question to their “teacher”— often an uncertified “teacher’s assistant”— may get an answer a day or two later by return email”….someone who believes that the certification status of a teacher is a strong indicator of their quality loses a lot of credibility with me.
I note that this guy works for a school of education. These institutions have plenty to answer for regarding the poor performance of American K-12 schooling in recent decades.
There is indeed a danger that for-profit schools will fall under the influence of fast-buck artists, but there is no automatic moral superiority to “non-profit” organizations, as the behavior of the Blob that dominates our public schools continues to demonstrate. Not all hucksters are “corporate hucksters”.