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
July 3rd, 2013 at 10:16AM
Of course, the for-profit university industry has been helped by eminent and highly paid academic advisors, just as the pharmaceutical industry is helped by prominent and highly paid academic key opinion leaders. The past chairman of the board of directors of DeVry U comes to mind. That would be Harold T. Shapiro, a former president of Princeton and of U Michigan before that. Here is an interview he gave to InsideHigherEd in 2009. Read it and reflect. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/07/devry
July 3rd, 2013 at 11:50AM
My sister taught at a proprietary college. Students were mostly folks on welfare, ex-convicts recently released, other referrals from government programs. Facilities and equipment were modest. Pay was appalling–$20 per class hour taught (in the late 1990s) was on the high side. (That’s no misprint.) I met her colleagues. Their hearts were in the right place, and they enjoyed teaching. None could afford to teach without their secondary incomes from side businesses, professions, pensions, etc.
My sister never knew the nominal tuition, which was nowhere made public.
July 7th, 2013 at 11:31PM
No need to create alliances. The “non-profit” universities are now emulating the for-profit ones. My institution is ramping up the online offerings, often riding right over the objections of the departments (for example, the English department was told they were taking too long creating the guidelines for an online degree, so the University told them that the University would create a degree program without the department if necessary).
When a friend called the University, asking for some advising on degree programs to take, they rather aggressively pushed her toward taking online programs, which she didn’t want to do.