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 16th, 2013 at 10:57AM
Well, this makes sense if most simple men can be classified as either fighters (wallets) or lovers (dicks). This leaves out the third kind of simple man, of course, which is nurturers.
November 16th, 2013 at 11:13AM
As for the wallets, seems to me that the the decision to build a stadium should be based on finances and revenue so you can’t blame guys for the wallets part. Seems to me you are making the opposite point– that it’s not a good financial decision, so they should be governed by their wallets. As for finances and men, that involves math, so you know the rest.
As for the intimate organs part, the stadiums I’ve seen are more feminine in shape than masculine.
November 16th, 2013 at 1:39PM
Hey UD, why the excess verbiage of “led by their dick or their wallets?” Just combine the appendages into one term that means the same thing, they’re led by Wall Street.
And it’s a hella lot more accurate. The seeming idiocy of spending billions on football stadiums to showcase horrible teams isn’t so when you follow the money. All that public financing is going to be administered by Wall Street institutions, either if creating the debt or buying the bonds. Given the fact that so few private investments exist, they turn to public institutions in order to get the money for their bonuses. And administrators at schools such as CSU and UNLV are in the back pocket of the monied interests, so they flack for this bullshit, which will be borne by the taxpayers and students. But who cares if the libraries haven’t been improved in years, or most courses are taught by itinerant adjunct profs, who goes to college to read or gain an education anyway?
November 16th, 2013 at 5:10PM
I’m glad you’re not saying that rule by females would be better. I’m not playing the Margaret Thatcher card – I’m just remembering that 6 out the 7 Provosts I’ve worked with were female – and none of them were particularly clear-cut forces for good. I was lucky that my general biases about what was good for us as an institution coincided with the longest serving female Provost and Dean of Faculty (though I chaired a committee to review one of her signature policies and came out thinking she was wrong, wrong, wrong).
We are one of those an Division III institutions with ONE Division I team. Men’s Lacrosse here. I find them and the campus reaction to them interesting.