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
March 9th, 2012 at 6:16PM
Strangely enough, the progressive blogosphere seems remarkably unconcerned with the going-away present given to abysmal failure Janet Robinson of the NYT.
March 10th, 2012 at 8:50AM
Approximately 30 seconds of googling suggests that, to give just one example, Daily Kos has been criticizing her pay deal with the NYT for some time. So what was your point again?
March 10th, 2012 at 10:07AM
What I see is that a few aggregators like Huffpo have printed a neutral story. As of this writing, the Huffpo story has a grand total of 42 comments. At Kos, a good many of the comments are directed at defending Paul Krugman, who has not yet apparently signed the union’s entirely mild protest letter.
The outrage, hyperventilation, and tantrums that would attend the departure of a comparable high-profile business exec not committed to The One aren’t there, Alan. 30 seconds of googling would make that clear.
March 10th, 2012 at 10:24AM
Alan: Links? A search of the Daily Kos for “Janet Robinson” since the beginning of the year finds just one entry, an OWS-style fling at the NYT by “The Troubador”:
http://tinyurl.com/7jjd6zx
Is the story really older than that? Surely the leftwing media can muster more spittle over this obvious bit of one-percenter capitalism? Or is the NYT to be largely immune to criticism as the bulwark of progressivism?
March 10th, 2012 at 2:55PM
SS & TP: if you really think that the folks at Kos regard the NYT as a “bulwark of progressivism”, then your perspective is so utterly upgefucked that you might as well stop there.
March 10th, 2012 at 3:16PM
Oh, OK Alan. Vielen danke.
March 10th, 2012 at 7:58PM
For Janet Robinson as for football coaches as for various executives receiving severance payments, the question should be asked–but rarely is—***what does the contract say?
Obviously, if Robinson (or whoever) had a specific severance payment in her employment contract, then (outside of bankruptcy) it needs to be honored. If money is being paid *in addition to* that contractually required, then the question should be: how does this benefit shareholders and the continuation of the enterprise?
The other question that needs to be investigated in these cases, though, is: if a large severance payment was indeed included as part of the employment contract, why was it necessary? If someone being hired is making outsized demands for a termination package, it doesn’t send a very strong signal about their self-confidence and their confidence in whatever they are supposed to be running.