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 28th, 2012 at 11:41AM
It’s true that a lot of our students return to Chicago or the suburbs on the weekend. In many cases, that’s to hold jobs. There are also a goodly number of our students holding full-time jobs in the local warehouses (your party-size Crunch bars probably passed through DeKalb enroute to trick-or-treating). Those jobs are often overnight or weekends, allows for a bit of time to eat and come to class, but not so much for football.
Weeknight football is also a mistake, as those evening hours are for second-shift classes or for working on group projects (on many a football Tuesday the activity level in the student center and the snack bar area of the business college building is as high as it would be any ordinary Tuesday). To its credit, the university administration has not requested that faculty cancel classes on football school nights, although unofficially they recommend against scheduling examinations or quizzes those nights.
Perhaps the conference, or saner heads on the athletic board, will see the wisdom of ending those weeknight games. Saturday starts at 6.30 pm in September, yes, Tuesday at 8 pm in November, no, and enough of the Friday after Thanksgiving morning games.
That said, I am enjoying the Orange Bowl hoopla, such as it is (Northern Illinois shirts on sale in Rockford, forsooth.) There are worse things that can happen at a university.
December 29th, 2012 at 4:54PM
Football Coach Kill, formerly at UNI, has now moved on up to the Big House at the University of Minnesota. There he makes the top salary at the U, approximately one mil, with incentives that could top out to about two mil.
We also participated in a bowl game this year, although not at quite the level of the Orange Bowl.
Another similarity is that attendance is down at football games at the U of M, especially by students who may also suffer from the disease of wanting an education.
Meanwhile, back on the poor side of town, the mean old Wall Street Journal has just kicked the stuffing out of the U of M administration with a broadside:
Deans List: Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy—And Tuition
Unfortunately this is on a pay site, but arguing fair use, I’ve got it up at the usual place: http://bit.ly/TxDQ4E
Happy New Year!