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
December 2nd, 2013 at 6:30PM
If you already have a undergrad degree, UNC won’t allow you to return to get another one. Ignoring the irony of previous university propaganda of people needing to upgrade skills in an evolving economy, why would UNC create such a policy? Could it be that a 42 year old would recognize a clown college when seen, and say WTF are you doing with my money? Would adults, who are finished with the laid, loaded and drunk portion of their lives, demand an end to administrative corruption? Probably…
December 2nd, 2013 at 6:46PM
I knew that you would be on this, UD!
I almost feel sorry for this jock sniffer–the UNC admin scampered for the hills and hung him out to dry. There can be little doubt that many athletic and non-athletic administrators knew exactly what was going on. One wonders whether Nyang’oro is being offered a deal to spill it all.
December 2nd, 2013 at 7:10PM
tp: Yes – I figure he’s being offered a deal – or in some way pressured – by the state, and that UNC must be extremely nervous/unhappy about what he might spill, since you and I can’t be the only people who assume athletics-generated corruption is/was endemic there.
But if Nyang’oro spills it all, does he put in jeopardy his excellent retirement package? I may be recalling wrong, but I think he was given a lot of money to go away, and there must have been restrictions placed on what he could say/do about the scandal in order for him to get the package…
All of this is madly speculative, of course.
December 2nd, 2013 at 7:13PM
Interesting point but such an agreement could not be enforced if to do so would cover up a crime. Incompetence? Yes. Crime? No.
December 2nd, 2013 at 7:16PM
Thanks, Van. I didn’t know about that.