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 19th, 2012 at 4:23PM
UD, a friend of mine who’s in his 50s now has played and coached organized amateur sports most of his adult life. He’s a genuine sports guy. He claims in informal conversation supported by specific examples that the reach of big-money pro and collegiate sports goes way deep. He means there’s informal scouting of athletically talented youngsters who play in peewee leagues, who attend organized sports summer camps, and who shine in school sports. He mentions coaches, local sports reporters, alumni, and, yes, parents, all of whom will get bragging rights for saying they “worked with” a future pro ball player. (BTW-I’m not sure any of this is especially sinister or obnoxious. Also, my friend was not able to say if he knew of any actual payments made to coaches, et. al., as talent spotters.)
August 20th, 2012 at 6:51AM
Rich Rodriguez is the coach at the University of Arizona, not Arizona State University. ASU managed to hire Todd Graham, who is truly sleazy.
August 20th, 2012 at 7:02AM
Thanks for the correction, Doug. I’ll fix the post.
August 20th, 2012 at 12:06PM
ASU is also lying. They claim football and basketball make money, but they don’t. However, the news media always reports this claim without ever looking into the budget trickery used to create the appearance of “making money.”
May 1st, 2013 at 6:37PM
[…] chair of their trustees thinks big-time sports are “intergral” to universities, and ASU, a perennial game loser, spends hugely on them (expenditures have gone up 44% since 2005). […]