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 16th, 2013 at 3:43PM
“DiStefano said CU is seeking ‘a dynamic leader’ who ‘can focus on our key goals of fundraising, building a dynamic organization and creating long-term stability in the athletics mission.'”
He actually said that? Nothing about academics? Or education? Or service to the people of Colorado?
June 18th, 2013 at 6:42AM
I’ve always thought the analogy between the spending habits of an athletic director and a drunken sailor is not quite apt. After all, a sailor eventually runs out of money.
June 18th, 2013 at 7:10AM
Pete: Yes – and when the incontinent sailor is dismissed from the navy, he doesn’t get a four million dollar buyout.
June 25th, 2013 at 12:39AM
Let me see if I get this right. CSU, and other unis, are saying that we need more money for athletics, even at a time when graduates are going broke trying to pay back loans, if they can find job, faculty pay is falling, departments are closing or shrinking, and state funding for k-12 and unis is drying up. The logic being, if we pay more for athletics, even if it comes out of the academic side, it’ll work because, eventually, money will come trickling back down to academics, in the by and by.
This crap was promulgated back in the 80’s, the Reagan administration being the shills that promoted the scam. And idiotic USAAmericans bought it, as they did offshoring heavy industry and massive deregulation, because it will all come flowing back and make us richer and more prosperous than before. Currently, it’s the uni admins turn to try to run the game on the children of the fools who got reamed back in the day.
I guess the administrators had to wait a generation to run that pigeon drop scheme again. Can’t fleece the marks too often…