The report also recalled former S.C. State Board Chairman Jonathan Pinson, who viewed an Atlanta Falcons football game in a $5,000 suite. Half the cost was paid by an S.C. State vendor and half by an S.C. State foundation, according to the report. Pinson has since been convicted of federal corruption charges in connection with other activities at the university and separate business deals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
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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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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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
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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...
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From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
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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.
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[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
July 10th, 2014 at 10:39AM
Whoever’s the luckless SOB to take over at S. C. State better be prepared to toss the whole place. Financial audit, performance audit, detailed employee evaluations, etc. Why? Corruption may be “polynodal” (my fancified term for “‘everyone’s’ in on the action”).
When Mr. Big gets prosecuted, the low-level purchasing guy working a minor kickback scheme will feel the heat’s off, and will have no incentive to stop.
July 10th, 2014 at 7:15PM
The purchasing guys don’t need any encouragement. We had one involuntarily separated separation this summer.
July 10th, 2014 at 8:47PM
Michael, thanks for the uplift!:)
The most recent theft at our local Podunk Tech was apparently (not yet tried) committed by an admin assistant in a one-man department (how was that position created?) who went personal shopping with the university credit card to the tune of low five figures.
A theft of union funds was discovered when a new union treasurer was left a note by the previous treasurer saying there’s a $20 thousand shortage because she needed the money to pay personal bills. (I wish I were making this up.)
(BTW-thanks for teaching Latin. I had my one year under Miss Macchione, before Latin was dropped. I have a Liddell-Scott from an adult project I had to learn a bit of classical Greek. I’m one of those who thinks the classics, poetry, literature, etc. are important for practical reasons: perspective, judgment, substantive knowledge, technical skill, etc.)