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
November 1st, 2012 at 5:11PM
Thanks, UD. Would any campus insider or close observer of higher education be awfully shocked if a university were to be prosecuted under the federal RICO statute, normally used for the prosecution of Mob figures?
November 1st, 2012 at 6:30PM
What has not been discussed widely is that Graham B. Spanier is on “sabbatical” this year to the tune of $700,000, which will end Nov. 9. He will then resume his tenured position at PSU at $600,000 per year. Tenure? Sabbatical?? Doubt that this was what tenure was designed to protect and that a sabbatical needs to be earned….
“University spokesman David La Torre said that under Spanier’s employment agreement, the former president is receiving $700,000 during his one-year sabbatical period, which ends on Nov. 9. After that, his employment agreement provides he be paid $600,000, La Torre said.”
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/11/01/3388709/charges-expected-today-for-former.html
November 1st, 2012 at 7:06PM
From the Penn State Propaganda Portal:
Spanier was removed as president of the University on Nov. 9, 2011. After his removal, he continued to serve as a tenured professor at Penn State, though he has been on sabbatical leave. In light of the charges brought against him, Spanier will be placed on leave, effective immediately.
No word on whether this will be paid leave or not. My guess is paid.
http://live.psu.edu/story/62417
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:11AM
Well, wouldn’t it be nice if the same principle were applied to PHARMA executives who had to know what was happening in their sales force and their marketing departments? Like off-label promotion and ghostwriting and suppression of unflattering (“commercially unacceptable”) data from clinical trials like Glaxo Study 329. Some C-suite jail time might work wonders in that arena.