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
July 16th, 2012 at 10:32AM
I was discussing the Penn State affair with my mother, a non-academic. She commented, “How can a football coach be more powerful than the university president? That’s crazy.” I think that sums it up quite nicely.
Since this is a family website, I don’t believe I’ll quote what she said when I explained how many football coaches get paid more than their university presidents.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:21AM
Can the Governor fire Garban? McDonnell threatened to fire the UVA trustees, you will recall.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:34AM
Good question. I would guess that he can. I would also guess that the problem with doing that is he’ll set in motion a chain reaction – people will want him to fire the other trustees.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:34AM
Crystal: They get paid millions more.
July 16th, 2012 at 11:46AM
The Gov only appoints a handful of trustees at Penn State and he would only be able to dismiss those. Garban is an alumni trustee, so he can’t be canned by Corbett.
July 16th, 2012 at 12:07PM
Thanks, veblen. If Garban’s an alumnni trustee, they’ll never get rid of him.
July 16th, 2012 at 12:28PM
There was a time when there were not term-limits on trustees. A few years ago, the Board changed its rules to cap service to 5 three-year terms. But those already on the Board were grandfathered in, so to speak. They were limited to an additional fifteen years. On Friday, I believe the Board reduced the number terms to four.
Anyway, Jesse Arnelle, a former Penn State football player, has been on the Board since 1969. I believe he is the longest-serving member. Here is bio from he Trustees’ website.
July 20th, 2012 at 8:04PM
The Governor? You mean the guy who slow-walked the Sandusky investigation when he was Attorney General, because he was afraid it might jeopardize his campaign, even as he collected donations from Second Mile board members? You think that guy is the one who is going to fire Garban?
July 21st, 2012 at 4:42AM
GTWMA: Well, governors are subject to more forms of pressure than trustees. But anyway. Garban’s gone.