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 17th, 2012 at 6:57AM
speaking of the Invisible Hand that shall not be questioned:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2012/jul/17/higher-education-bubble/
July 17th, 2012 at 1:46PM
Up until about 50 years ago, a principal concern about college sports was the influence of coaches; a key part of the Ivy League project, initially, was directed there. Then in the ’60s there was a reversal, and everything was turned over to the coaches (a big part of why the Ivy reforms didn’t take). It seems to me that we’re now seeing the return of this issue. Penn State is almost epiphenomenal – the real focus is that coaches now command amazing salaries. And this is in fact a market effect:
1) Outstanding coaches do make a difference
2) Success (in football and basketball) brings in a lot of money
3) The players aren’t getting any of it (nor should they, in my view), but the guys who recruit them …
Bear in mind that all college sports, in aggregate, lost money. The problem here is that we’ve created a winner-take-all system in which mechanisms to socialize the costs have been systematically undermined. And one of those mechanisms was in fact the NCAA, which got run over by the football powers.
July 17th, 2012 at 2:23PM
Mr Punch: The NCAA IS the football powers. As is the Knight Commission. The sport has been taken over by moguls (variants of Phil Knight and T. Boone), coaches whose salaries and power have corrupted them and degraded the universities that hired them, and of course corporate interests (advertising, alcohol, etc.). To watch this sick reality presented as wholesome has been, for me, quite amazing. Paterno just gives the whole thing a focus. A statue.