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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 17th, 2012 at 9:11AM
“reviewing compensation and classification issues”
Remember Bob Dynes? UC didn’t do a very good job of policy review when it addressed these same matters in 2006.
The SF Chronicle says the whistle blower on the Leite case initiated contact with UC via Fleming.
Leite now works directly for Fleming… all part of the coverup attempt.
Once a dirt-bag, always a dirt-bag, Graham Fleming on faculty furloughs in Fall ’09:
(from the DailyCal)
However, Fleming said effects of the furlough program on research are still unclear. “Faculty don’t work nine-to-five, five days a week,” he said. “My guess is what most faculty will do on a furlough day is research. It may even help research.”
All the ethics/professionalism/harassment training is a total joke, of course. Cartoonishly obvious scenarios are presented, I just hit next slide as fast as possible. The institutional lip service paid to such useless garbage is painful to endure. Who do they think they are pandering to? No thinking human being who ever looked at this stuff could seriously think it would have an impact on behavior. Makes for a demoralizing work environment (but that issue is really one of death by a thousand cuts).
March 19th, 2012 at 9:22AM
I am sure there is a provision in the California human rights regulations affording senior female administrators the right to the services of a therapeutic toyboy at state expense, provided of course, said relations are consensual, with the nature and duration of the services specified and properly notarized. Needless to say safe sex practices are mandatory, with the aforesaid toyboy being required to attend a five-hour training session on the use of condoms.
There does seem to be an interesting cultural change occurring, however. When I started, young, foxy secretaries were common among the male administrative crowd. It now appears that no one under 45 need apply.
March 19th, 2012 at 12:25PM
There’s an “assistant vice chancellor for Research Enterprise Services”?
That means there’s a “chancellor for Research Enterprise Services”, a “vice chancellor for Research Enterprise Services”, and an “assistant vice chancellor for Research Enterprise Services”. The lowest totem on the pole getting $185,000 per year.
Plus benefits.
No, wait, I lied. There are SIX “assistant vice chancellors for Research Enterprise Services”
See http://www.berkeley.edu/admin/pdf/research.pdf
March 19th, 2012 at 1:29PM
Bill R: Sometimes you just have to laugh.
March 20th, 2012 at 11:50AM
So, how exactly was this guy being harrassed? Does getting his salary tripled count as that?
March 20th, 2012 at 12:09PM
Itp: I know. Seems a strange use of the word harassment – unless, of course, he only got raises by, er, cooperating.