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
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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
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
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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
January 22nd, 2014 at 7:05AM
Pigs.
January 22nd, 2014 at 1:36PM
One of your referenced articles, specifically The Coloradan, is a hagiography of the CSU Athletic Director, Jack Graham. The piece goes on to mention that Graham is working closely with Pat Kilkenny, who was the AD at Oregon, when the school built the most expensive basketball arena in America. The writer extols Graham/Kilkenny’s devotion to a corporate mindset, a hard nose business approach to running an athletic department, and bringing that sentiment to university administration.
To begin with, the Coloradan journalist needs to get some facts straight. He claims that Kilkenny, who doesn’t have a degree, nor any background in academics, persuaded Phil Knight to donate $100 million for the Oregon arena. Sources here in Oregon stated that the amount was $30 million, that the public has to finance approximately $200 million for the building. And Kilkenny persuaded no one, that’s complete bullshit. Knight demanded that Bill Moos, the prior Oregon AD, be fired prior to his donation. Moos didn’t want the debt nor the building, citing the fact that there was no justification paying nearly $250 million for a warehouse that was empty nearly 90% of the time. Kilkenny was the Phil Knight lapdog, doing what his master wanted him to do.
And as for hard nosed business sense as the excuse for getting this white elephant built, well, if you call lying about its economic efficacy, paying a consultant to publish a bogus report claiming that the arena would become an economic boon to the area, well, then yeah, that’s pretty hard core corporate policy. Because the truth is, that the Matt Knight basketball arena has been a disaster. Students don’t show up, none of the promised conventions or concerts have appeared, as if anyone wants to show up to Eugene OR during rainy season, even the ballyhooed Cirque du Soleil fled midway through a week long run, due to the fact that Oregon is stone broke, and hardly anyone is capable of paying the fare to see people dangling from ceilings.
That’s what it’s come to, that the lies and deceit has to become so oppressively loud, that it drowns out reason and common sense. If CSU is going to use U of Oregon’s athletic business model, then nonexistent supreme being help them…