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
April 26th, 2012 at 7:44AM
Education vice-dean “Dr.” Lynch
thought Columbia degrees were a cinch
so he gave himself two
one was faux; one came true
Imaginary will do in a pinch
April 26th, 2012 at 7:45AM
theotherprof: Excellent! You have inspired me to try my hand at one.
April 26th, 2012 at 8:37AM
I wonder how many other administrators at Penn mistakenly believe they have a PhD. The article seems to indicate Lynch defended and was asked to make substantial revisions. There should be a post-hiring degree verification system in place (i.e. if you want us to consider you to have degree X we need a transcript or copy of the diploma).
April 26th, 2012 at 9:22AM
Is a non-degree in education different from a degree in education?
April 26th, 2012 at 9:48AM
francofou: LOL.
April 26th, 2012 at 10:15AM
Maybe he got a certificate in Latin that said “Are you f**king kidding me?”
April 26th, 2012 at 1:37PM
If you think you have a degree but you’re not getting the alumni magazine or fund-raising pitches, then you should worry there might be a problem.
April 26th, 2012 at 2:32PM
And he’s gone:
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120426_Penns_vice-dean_resigns.html?cmpid=124488459
April 26th, 2012 at 3:45PM
I’ve had that nightmare. Actually, the nightmare I started having not long after I defended was that I’d somehow neglected to finish high school, and needed to go back (which was even weirder because one of my high school classmates did not, in fact, finish, and graduated from our mutual undergrad institution anyway).
But I wake up. And if I’m having trouble shaking the nightmare, I can always check my transcript, the bound volume of the diss, the little blue UMI reprint, DAI, my diploma, and/or the photos of myself in what is clearly a Ph.D. gown and hood to make sure I really did finish. Also, my employer was pretty insistent on verifying my actual possession of the degree.
April 26th, 2012 at 4:08PM
ContingentCassandra: Funny!
April 26th, 2012 at 8:46PM
We have a new paragraph in appointment letters that makes all hiring of faculty contingent upon receipt of official transcripts proving receipt of a terminal degree. And there’s a reason for that – – 2 years ago an assistant professor disappeared in mid-semester and was promptly scrubbed from the website. Turns out he had never finished. His erstwhile dissertation advisor noticed (1) he was employed and (2) was claiming a ph.d. and informed us this was not true.
I myself have had an occasional (not regular, praise Jesus) dream in which I am called into the Provost’s office, where my own dissertation advisor and at least one other member of the committee are waiting for in full academicals to rescind my ph.d. Yikes.
April 29th, 2012 at 12:22PM
Not only have we demanded both undergraduate and graduate transcripts for a long time here, but the academic affairs office has at various times wanted a photocopy of the actual graduate diploma.