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 25th, 2013 at 10:22AM
Setting aside the slippery slope aspect (does compensating players for the use of their images in video games make them pros?) Remy’s argument seems to me to be cogent. Money from revenue sports does help support non-revenue sports [at a limited number of institutions], and there are questions about the applicability of Title IX to overtly professional activities. We may not care, of course; but some people do.
July 25th, 2013 at 2:24PM
Not mentioned are the myriad issues plaguing D1 sports specifically, and universities, in general. Primarily, college sports are a losing play, very few D1 athletic programs make money, they need subsidization from academics. Ignore what college AD’s tell yass, it’s all bullshit, without massive public debt for athletic build outs, (Texas A&M wants half a billion, yup, $500 million, to RENOVATE, not build, their football stadium, college athletics would be finished.
And that segues to the most important concern, states will be going broke. Think that’s impossible? Research what’s been happening to the credit ratings of Illinois and Pennsylvania. They were lowered within the last few months, underscoring a deep financial/fiscal crisis. With the altered credit accessibility, the states and their public unis will pay billion more over the course of their loans, impacting the states ability to fund public universities.
And it doesn’t stop with those two states. California is facing the real possibility that two of their biggest cities, Oakland and San Jose, will declare bk shortly, in order to get rid of their pension liabilities. Looming in the mist, Los Angeles, with its billions in unsecured pension liabilities, which may be the most vulnerable of American cities.
What’s it all mean? D1 is made up of public universities. They are dependent on the state to underwrite their public debt. Growing numbers of states are facing insolvency. Tuition increases cannot continue, meaning the golden age of university excess is over. If the AD’s are forced to pay their players, they won’t have the resources to maintain the facade of independence, and they can no longer rely on the academic side picking up the deficit. Going forward, unis will be fighting to keep the doors open, many will close, and their athletic programs become defunct. It’s all been a scam anyway, hell, even Stevie Cohen has finally been shown to be nothing more than a crook, him and his 30%/year returns. It’s gonna get real ugly….
July 25th, 2013 at 5:37PM
god forbid that college students have to return to the dark days of club and intramural sports…