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
June 1st, 2013 at 5:08PM
Dear UD,
As one of the few WG (1975)to peruse your blog, thought that I would respond. I believe our program is a tocsin bell on trends.
I went to Wharton, because getting a PHD in diplomatic history at one of the Ivies was starting to look very sketchy. Many of my classmates were in the same boat. Also, at the time, WG was the first Ivy MBA program to recruit at the seven sisters schools. We had an unusually strong class academically.
Most of us were trying to get our union cards punched so we could get a decent job at a major corporation. We were looking for interesting work in cities with decent amenities and good restaurants. Gordon Gekkos we were not. We didn’t even know what a bond trader was and Wall Street was not hiring heavily in that era. Amusing, I soon became a mortgage backed securities trader.
Your post reminded me of an unusually telling incident.
In the summer of 1974, I was taking a management course from an intutor who had been a heavyweight at ARCO and under secretary of the Navy. In our mid twenties, we were full of ourselves. After one lecture, a number of us surrounded the professor and one student asked him, You’ve been associated with this program for a long time. Over the years, what has impressed you the most about Wharton?
He looked dumbfounded for a second, then his eyes twinkled and he smiled wryly. He said, “The fact that no one from here has done any time……yet.”
Michael Milken had left about 18 months before.
June 1st, 2013 at 5:49PM
Frank: Funny! Wonderful story at the end of your comment. That guy was prescient. Thanks for commenting. UD