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
November 2nd, 2013 at 6:00AM
I’m imagining that old cartoon routine with an angel on your one shoulder and a devil on the other.
November 2nd, 2013 at 6:38AM
gtwma: Totally.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:45AM
A consensual virtual meta postmodern achievement.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:03AM
You know, one can embed videos such as these in PowerPoint. 😉
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:14AM
Pete: You must be the devil on one of my shoulders that gtwma is talking about.
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:17AM
Why in the world would the main text cost $151 in hardcover? Is the binding made of gold?
November 2nd, 2013 at 8:34AM
Van: Dunno. But my students got them at a good price from the bookstore.
November 2nd, 2013 at 9:03AM
It’s hard for me to reconcile UD’s techno-reluctance with her enthusiasm for MOOCs. UD is large and contains multitudes. 🙂
November 2nd, 2013 at 10:34AM
Daniel: It’s one of those things that looks like a contradiction but isn’t, I think. I mean, I’ve been blogging for ages too. There’s a lot I do which isn’t at all technophobic. On MOOCs – I’m enthusiastic about my own MOOC, and MOOCs like it (lecture-style, low-tech, non-credit, no tests, free). I have nothing against democratizing technologies which make good things available to people all over the world. But most MOOCs are of course nothing like this – they are a species of distance-ed: monetized, rigged up with all sorts of intrusive security technology, missing a human being (call it a professor) and in its place full of distracting endless technocrap routines and games, etc. etc.
November 2nd, 2013 at 11:10AM
I think to begin with, UD wasn’t emphatic enough about the difference between her vision of what a MOOC should be used for and what the vision of most MOOCophiles is, and she came across as altogether too rah-rah about the whole thing. But in fairness, she’s clarified her views several times now, and makes the distinction more explicitly when she’s asked to comment on the MOOC phenomenon. So far as I can see, anyway.
November 2nd, 2013 at 7:17PM
Understood, UD. Makes perfect sense.
November 3rd, 2013 at 8:55PM
Ok, UD. Just watched the video. Loved it. I also own a cd of his superman piece by the Baltimore Symphony conducted by Zinman. Lovely music. Do you have it? But, what did you say to your students. I think you should post one of your analysis like you do with poetry. Come on, don’t let us down. I can’t be the only one who thought of this.