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
May 14th, 2013 at 1:14PM
a nice student response at http://nmsuaggiesolidarity.org/2013/05/13/a-response-to-regent-cheneys-letter/
“Instead of paying Marvin Menzies to travel and recruit foreign basketballers to Las Cruces, why don’t we work to attract more young people from Africa, Quebéc, or wherever else to our ag science or history departments? Instead of making athletics the motor for bringing ‘diversity’ to campus, why don’t we put those resources into attracting more diversity directly to our academic programs? If we really got serious about that – if we built innovative academic programs in the colonias, in inner-cities – how many new donors could we attract?”
May 14th, 2013 at 1:31PM
That is what is called too many exclamation points!
May 14th, 2013 at 4:23PM
Isn’t “Aggie Nation” a bit grandiose? I mean, sure, Red Sox nation and maybe even Bama Nation, but I’m fairly certain that Aggie Nation extends no father than Lordsburg to the west and Alamogordo to the east. (Oh, and also Truth or Consequences to the north.) Aggie Nation is the sports version of Liechtenstein.
May 14th, 2013 at 4:30PM
TAFKAU: Truth or Consequences was immortalized in Paul Fussell’s book, Class:
http://books.google.com/books?id=aPbF1kuayJYC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=paul+fussell+class+truth+or+consequences+new+mexico&source=bl&ots=eaWHW9I4yP&sig=EoB8iz6osPjexlkRzke6bTidPwI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=raySUYG-JdKG0QH74YCYDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20fussell%20class%20truth%20or%20consequences%20new%20mexico&f=false
May 15th, 2013 at 7:26AM
First, the comments of Mr. Cheney are worthy of ridicule but in order to be “fairly certain that Aggie Nation extends no father than Lordsburg to the west and Alamogordo to the east. (Oh, and also Truth or Consequences to the north)” one has to be willing to opine not in accordance to knowledge. What, you couldn’t think of a city south of Las Cruces with a funny enough name to complete your marking of NMSU territory?
NMSU is the agricultural college of the state of New Mexico. As such, it’s the only place in NM to get a veterinary education. Therefore, the stretch of “Aggie Nation” goes from Shiprock to Tucumcari to Hobbs to Antelope Wells (those names funny enough?). In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the NMSU Aggie Nation extends to funny places such as Balmorhea and Marfa since it is much closer to those places than the more familiar Aggie Nation (which, we can imagine, stretches from Cut and Shoot to Palestine to Beeville).
May 15th, 2013 at 9:00AM
Pete: Wonderful!
May 16th, 2013 at 5:03AM
Geez, Pete, I used to live out that way, so I wasn’t trying to ridicule NMSU, which is a fine school, just the notion of “Aggie Nation” as a football entity. Unless things have changed since I was there, most of the rest of New Mexico pulls for UNM, if they care about college football at all.
Two other thoughts: no, I couldn’t think of ANY city south of Las Cruces, because there isn’t one (at least not until you get to the Texas line). Also, if we’re allowed to bring West Texas into the conversation, then you left out Earth and Muleshoe and New Deal.
February 28th, 2014 at 5:20PM
[…] Here’s a sample from a letter the chair of the board of trustees wrote. I won’t quote from it because I’m one of those people who doesn’t enjoy puking her guts out, but you might enjoy it, so go ahead and take a look. […]