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
August 8th, 2012 at 11:12AM
Eerie!
August 8th, 2012 at 11:24AM
Creepy.
August 8th, 2012 at 11:50AM
Great blog, UD! If you’re an ordinary Joe (i. e., a non-professor) who’s concerned about higher education, and who wants to know if there’s something at the academy behind the seamless boosters’ rhetoric and flashy Web sites, you’re at the right blog. Trust me–the horror stories are real. I’ll be a regular reader.
August 8th, 2012 at 11:50AM
I was worried that Jerry Sandusky was completely out of control, but fortunately, he explained that it was just market conditions. Brrrr.
August 8th, 2012 at 7:27PM
That quote seems right out of a Sinclair Lewis novel.
August 8th, 2012 at 7:53PM
Yup – so much mindless Babbitry that if I could find my notes I’d check them. Hard to believe he actually said all that. But I’m MUCH better than, say, Jonah Lehrer, at transcription. I worked as a secretary each summer when I was in grad school, and I took dictation.
August 9th, 2012 at 3:08AM
BTW-by “horror stories” (above), I mean criminal and civil misconduct engaged in by administrators, faculty, and staff, and decisions so malignant or incompetent a 20-year old shift manager at McDonald’s could spot them. A very minor example: there’s the publicly reported Cayman Islands account that goes unexplained, because it’s unquestioned, and because it’s left unrepatriated (as it likely should be for a non-profit with local-only interests), it generates institutional mistrust.
Keep up the great work, UD.