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 18th, 2013 at 11:00AM
I wouldn’t have guessed that there were so many other things to do in Ypsilanti. Live and learn.
November 18th, 2013 at 11:33AM
MattF: LOL.
November 18th, 2013 at 11:38AM
On the other hand, Ypsilanti is right next door to Ann Arbor.
November 18th, 2013 at 1:44PM
Dear Coach:
I cannot help but notice that you have awarded 20-25 scholarships every year since 1995. Yet, only 1-2 of these students each year has subsequently completed your program and gone on to play in the NFL. Since fewer than 10% of your players have succeeded, I’ve decided to give your funding to an academic department with a proven track record of student success.
November 18th, 2013 at 2:46PM
Performance based budgeting, I like the approach.Since on occasion, a player from a Division II (or whatever it’s called now) or lower football program plays on Sundays, however, any metric either for defending the football program, or for funding it, based on NFL signings, is at best a noisy signal of the program’s accomplishments.
November 18th, 2013 at 4:39PM
GTWMA: That’s exactly how it should go.
November 18th, 2013 at 10:20PM
Keep in mind that EMU was caught up in the New York Attorney General’s university financial aide investigation. The EMU admins received kickbacks from Sallie Mae, in order for Sallie Mae to become the university’s “preferred lender,” while also operating a call center for students needing financial aide information. Guess what advice Sallie Mae was giving.
The student body was getting it coming and going, from having to pay massive debt, to having that debt fund a losing football team.