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
October 13th, 2013 at 12:00PM
If you listen to administrator bullshit, you would think that the student body/alumni/taxpayer can’t get enough of football, that there is no limit to the amount they’re willing to pay, not distance they won’t travel, no outrage they won’t tolerate, to fulfill their besotted infatuation with football.
But as you have pointed out, the admins are not going to admit that they lied, football isn’t the end all, be all, for every fucking USAAmercian. If, as they do at Oregon, they have to give out cheeseburgers, or pose the threat of punishing students who leave games early, then the great American distraction is losing steam. No, you can’t keep jacking up ticket prices, schedule clearly inferior opponents, pay hundreds of million for athlete only facilities, while students wallow in tens of thousands of dollars in debt, with dwindling career prospects. Last spring, I was at a college campus, and passed an announcement for Internship Fair. Found out, they don’t have Career Fairs, the best they can do is offer their students a chance at a chance for a job. And all the overpaid administrators can do is give a kid a cheeseburger if they sit through another blowout….
October 13th, 2013 at 12:39PM
The “too much money” thing is real and important, but in a sense overrated. A lot of problems in college athletics, including notably those around mistreatment of student-athletes, arise from efforts to control costs. This is why current suggestions that the elite (and financially secure) programs “secede” from D1/FBS may actually make sense.
October 13th, 2013 at 12:52PM
@ Mr. Punch, can you explain what you mean regarding mistreatment of athletes? Former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton father solicited money from universities in order to get his son to attend a program. Maurice Clarett was the subject of an SI article describing his playing days at Ohio State, where he rarely attended class and received both cars and money.
These guys may certainly be the singular, but I would like to read what you see as player mistreatment…