The place has an astounding consistency. Jockshop di tutti jockshops, it now has its trustees busy looking into two new degree offerings:
How to Keep Turfgrass Looking Good.
The place has an astounding consistency. Jockshop di tutti jockshops, it now has its trustees busy looking into two new degree offerings:
How to Keep Turfgrass Looking Good.
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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
January 26th, 2013 at 9:32PM
Are they growing some onions down there?
January 27th, 2013 at 8:36AM
Well, at least there are reasonable odds that someone who takes the beer-making course will be able to make successful beer.
How good are the odds that someone who gets either or both of the proposed how-to-teach-writing degrees will be any better at teaching writing *after* doing the program than before?
January 27th, 2013 at 12:04PM
david: The odds are low.
January 29th, 2013 at 10:42AM
We need brewers! “Malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.”
January 30th, 2013 at 8:34AM
Well said Chas. BTW these are online certificates, not degree programs. There are actual brewing degrees, the best being in Germany.
January 31st, 2013 at 2:16PM
There isn’t a university that doesn’t have a bunch of these types of programs. GW has one on “Reading and Literacy” and another on “Online Politics”. I’m assuming the latter offers excellent instruction in writing snarky tweets and blogs.
As a landgrant institution, Penn State has had one of the best turfgrass programs in the world in its College of Agricultural Sciences for a long time. It’s a demanding program covering the genetics and biology of grasses and the pathogens that attack them.
There’s a big, wide world out there of people that want to be educated in many different areas. Any reason why we can’t show the same respect to those interested in the science of brewing and grasses as we do to those interested in GW’s extensive offerings on politics and museum management? Each responds to the community of learners in their region. From them, we get well-kept public grounds to enjoy as we walk to a beautifully display in a Smithsonian museum exhibit, and can then head to the local brewpub to enjoy the company of our friends and a local lager or IPA.
Unfortunately, I can find nothing positive to say about teaching students about Online Politics (OK, maybe they helped secure the public funds for the museum exhibit).