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 23rd, 2013 at 10:30AM
I thought the question “what kind of a business case” in the original article was a little disingenuous. The author raises the question of Title IX only to disregard it. But looking at the math (the article’s a little ambiguous), either four or five of the seven teams cut were men’s teams. That certainly helps the university keep the necessary number of women athletes to balance out the massive number of men athletes needed to run (in Temple’s case) an uncompetitive and money-losing football team.
December 23rd, 2013 at 11:30AM
Dave: Yes – and then the only question is why they’re insisting on continuing to run an uncompetitive and money-losing football team.
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:38PM
Yeah–that’s always puzzled me too. There IS a kind of sense in using massive surpluses from your football team to subsidize wrestling or softball. But if your football team’s losing money . . . well, it’s like the old _I Love Lucy_ where she lost money on every bottle of salad dressing but planned on making it up in volume. http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean/making_it_up_in_volume
December 23rd, 2013 at 12:51PM
I think the money losing football schools have relied on the unconvincing argument that its about getting students to notice you (admissions) and keeping alumni in touch (donations). I think the evidence on both is weak.
Over the next few decades, I think you will see most of the bottom half of D1 programs drop down a level, as the bigger schools will cut a deal with the NFL and cut the NCAA out of the picture. The bigger schools will focus on turning those non-revenue sports that they can into revenue (or at least break-even) sports (e.g., hockey and wrestling in the Big Ten; baseball in the west and Southeast), while eliminating those they cannot.
December 23rd, 2013 at 4:30PM
There is actually a “business case” for crew, which has been said to be attractive to the kind of applicants who pay full freight.
December 23rd, 2013 at 8:12PM
Over 30% of the students who come to the DIII school at which I teach come here to play intercollegiate sports. Sports are a major recruiting tool that bring us — tuition-paying students.
Is there some reason the geniuses at DI schools can’t do this with so-called nonrevenue sports?
Boathouse row is a beautiful place. How could Temple walk away for losing football?
December 24th, 2013 at 7:03AM
JND: biggest reason is Title IX. If you’re going to give 100 men scholarships to play football and basketball, then federal law says, in effect, you’ve got to give scholarships to an equivalent number of women. There are other paths under Title IX to show you’re providing equal opportunity, but most schools just go with this.
NCAA also frowns on starving non-revenue sports of scholarships when you’re giving them to the big boys.