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
May 5th, 2012 at 7:20AM
Kevin Broadus, the fired Binghamton coach, is now an assistant coach at Georgetown. His bio there omits mention of the Binghamton interlude: http://www.guhoyas.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/broadus_kevin00.html.
May 5th, 2012 at 9:06AM
Whoa. Georgetown should be ashamed of itself. Talk about airbrushing history. And how about Georgetown hiring that guy at all, with all that he did to damage Binghamton? To say nothing of the fact that he has a record of suing the university that he works for. Georgetown will certainly get hit hard as a result of hiring this guy (just as all the schools that keep hiring, for another example, Rich Rodriguez, do). Georgetown students should ask why the school hired Broadus, why it allows employees to fudge their work histories on their web pages, and why university money will probably eventually be spent to make Broadus go away.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:12AM
The UNC thing is a modified limited hangout if there ever was one. Even small fry like Gilligan now have so many reports on faculty teaching loads, credit hours generated, etc. that there is no way someone in the higher administration could not have been aware that a department chair was racking up enormous numbers of credits and load hours. Similarly, it is hard to believe that the faculty of a whole department somehow neglected to notice that they were being credited with entire courses.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:39AM
tp: I have absolutely no doubt that the fraud was well-known to other faculty and to administrators. Same deal at Binghamton. And of course schools like Auburn barely bother to act surprised.