Finally, a clear statement from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Heady stuff.
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UD thanks Daniel.
Finally, a clear statement from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Heady stuff.
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UD thanks Daniel.
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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
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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 20th, 2012 at 12:08PM
Pretty funny!
June 20th, 2012 at 4:16PM
It’s great satire, but the underlying issues are far from funny. The Stanford/Harvard/MIT entry into online courses has trustees, presidents, and provosts at peer institutions scrambling to get on board, and I’m afraid a lot muddled thinking is happening. A new terminology is being propagated, including “flipping the classroom” (the idea that lectures can be taken online and the classroom reserved for discussion). The biggest problem is that they can’t figure out whether the online instruction is for internal or external consumption. We’re talking about schools at which direct personal access to outstanding faculty has been their biggest selling point. The way I’m reading the UVA situation is that the alpha trustees and technology cheerleaders decreed that this is the way of the future and the president wasn’t getting on board the train fast enough. Mind the gap!
June 20th, 2012 at 4:56PM
Polish Peter: Absolutely. MOOCs are very much in flux and have nothing to do with the crappy cynical online course offerings that universities merely looking to save money are adopting. I can see why universities are watching MOOCs at Stanford, etc., with interest, but UVA shows how you can panic and fall into a trap by assuming MOOCs are more than they are.