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 12th, 2012 at 4:35PM
Morally, it’s hard to see how this kind of thing is different than what certain CEOs/CFOs did when making prohibited accounting adjustments, such as treating “expense” items as “capital expenditures.” Some of these people are in prison with very long sentences.
Legally, of course, there is a difference in that the securities laws don’t apply to university administrators, but plain old garden variety fraud would indeed seem to be applicable.
March 13th, 2012 at 6:03AM
1. They better the Hell be tenured!
2. “..apparently dealt with its sudden drop in ranking by slashing the part-time program…” Hey, you count beans, beans is what you gonna get! Though it’s a little surprising that cutting the part-timers would help you in DC, this is a place where lots of people who work for agencies see a part time law degree as a way to improve their value on the outside, working for people who have business with their to-be-former agencies, and they are often right, and it’s lucrative.
March 13th, 2012 at 6:07AM
dave.s.: Yeah, they’re both tenured.
March 13th, 2012 at 7:23PM
It’s misleading to lump all these practices together. As for the wrongdoing at GW, I am genuinely curious as to what should have been done. From the cited Hatchet article, it appears to follow this timeline:
1. Part-time program accepts students that typically have less distinguished records.
2. US News changes its rules, such that students accepted into part-time program are lumped with full-time students. GW knows that the value of its degree to all students will suffer, and its admissions will suffer, so it changes the size of the part-time program.
What should have been done? And when answering, consider the opposite sequence: what would UD have said if the law school initiated a part-time program and filled it with lower-scoring students? Would that have been degrading its academic mission in pursuit of the dollar?