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
December 1st, 2012 at 11:51AM
One of the main justifications for the existence of extremely selective colleges like Stanford is that they teach very very smart people that they are nevertheless not quite as smart as they think, and that other people are very very smart too. This is not accomplished in a nicey-nice atmosphere.
December 8th, 2012 at 5:17PM
This post is really surprising in light of your regard for excellent teaching and for the ethics of professors.
I think you’re wrong to attribute schadenfreude to faculty who expressed concern about this incident to higher-ups. What should those faculty have done, in your view–keep their mouths shut? When Professor Castle read from a paper she identified as having been written by a student in her senior seminar, she did so without that student’s permission, deriding the writing in a public forum, using that student’s work to support Prof. Castle’s contention that in our fallen era all student writing is so bad she doesn’t even know how to begin to address its problems.
Seriously, you believe it’s likely “no actual students had a problem” with this? Do the students you know regard a violation of students’ trust in their professor as a right of the prof? Consider the impact on the individual student whose work was derided, and on that students’ peers, who’ve just learned it’s not necessarily safe to believe their writing will be treated with respect by their teachers. The possibility of one’s writing being ridiculed in public has to be, for a lot of students, their worst nightmare. That Stanford faculty objected proves not that they are evil taunters, but that they care about the impact of this incident on students.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:32PM
Paperback: Thank you for writing. I don’t agree that this sort of thing would be for any student her “worst nightmare.” I await any student going on record as expressing upset about this. It’s clear that it upset their professors.