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
June 19th, 2012 at 5:18PM
Ok, so help me out here: why did Sullivan resign? Apparently the entire BoV never even met on the question. Never met to accept her resignation, either. Something is really up here and I cant tell what it is. She just resigned “under pressure” from the Rector and vice-Rector? Who told her they had a majority of the board on their side? But the board never met. Hmm.
June 19th, 2012 at 5:57PM
Shane: Yes. The whole thing is very obscure. I’m guessing that Sullivan resigned because she’s a rather gentle, morally upright sort (I know – just speculating – but that’s sort of what she seems to be) who assumes other people are as straightforward as she is. If Dragas came to her and told her things, Sullivan presumably believed them and acted accordingly.
June 19th, 2012 at 8:47PM
Why is resigning acting accordingly here? One whispered word from the Rector and she heads for the door? I smell a fish. Indeed, I smell an academical whale.
June 19th, 2012 at 10:05PM
Well, we’re getting ever deeper into speculation here, but this is one scenario. From what I’ve read, Dragas felt hostility and distrust toward Sullivan from the start — which Sullivan must have been aware of. More broadly, Sullivan must have been aware of discontent – either simply there, or stirred up by Dragas – among other trustees. Rather than a whispered word, what she might have gotten from Dragas is a very aggressive, very sudden attack. Look at how Sullivan was told to vacate the president’s house two weeks before her contract was up. That shows an effort to humiliate, not merely fire, Sullivan. I think the Sullivan/Dragas meeting was nasty brutish and short — nothing like a mere whispered word.
June 20th, 2012 at 6:50AM
Note that Dragas’ term on the BOV expires July 1, so something more (involving the Governor of Va.) is bound to happen in the next week or two. One supposes that she wants to be reappointed, but we shall see.