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
March 13th, 2014 at 5:14PM
As a tweed-wearing art historian member of a department of Art and Architecture, our wonderful and devoted cleaning crew is terrified of disposing of art…to the point that when big piles of discarded junk appear in the halls at midterm or the end of the semester they leave notes asking “Is this art?” We reply by writing, “No, this is trash!” People like me enjoy writing these notes.
Perhaps the cleaning staff at LSU is too traumatized by having recycled art to enter the building except under direct orders.
March 13th, 2014 at 5:42PM
Michael: LOL.
March 15th, 2014 at 9:40AM
Back in the 90s I was a grad student at LSU. One of the reasons I went there was the fact that my comparatively generous fellowship package included (so I was told) an office. Upon my arrival in Baton Rouge I learned that said office was not in Allen Hall, but in a building call Gym Armory. Room 202. At the foot of the stairway in Gym Armory was an aromatic pile left there by something much larger than a rat. At the top of the stairs was Room 202, a large, open space occupied by a silent but attentive-looking collection of buckets and mops, which I lectured briefly on Mary Rowlandson.
Back in the English Department office an admin told me that no grad student really gets an office, at least not, you know, an office per se. But would I like to share a desk in the adjunct corral? There followed a nice talk with my chair; by the end of what turned out to be just the first of many lessons in academic politics I actually wound up with a real, if dingy, office, right there in the basement of Allen Hall, a few doors down from an equally dismal space once occupied, in a distant time when LSU mattered, by Robert Penn Warren.
(In 1958, a crucial and transitional year in the Annals of LSU Fame, Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the Tigers beat Clemson 7-0 for its first national football championship. One door closes, another one opens.)
March 15th, 2014 at 4:39PM
Dr_Doctorstein: Funny. I’m a big fan of Robert Penn Warren…