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
July 22nd, 2014 at 3:17PM
CSU might have its problems, but they do have a very good photographer taking the portraits of its senior staff, including the police chief.
July 22nd, 2014 at 3:40PM
Polish Peter: Yes! They certainly know where to put their resources.
July 22nd, 2014 at 4:00PM
Whew! Looks like a place run by MAD, mutually assured destruction. The more you’re an insider, the more you wish you were an outsider. The guaranteed blackmail-ability of colleagues and subordinates is standard-issue patronage politics here where I live.
Peter and UD are absolutely right. That’s superbly done photography, layout, and I-love-me captioning.
July 22nd, 2014 at 5:14PM
Indeed, Jack. Narcissistic self-celebration is a strong correlate of organizational dysfunction.
July 22nd, 2014 at 6:01PM
Polish Peter, you’re right. Is there anyone who doesn’t notice CSU’s chief of campus police and the director of facilities and physical plant are the same man?
July 22nd, 2014 at 7:46PM
And he’s the former police commissioner of Cambridge, Mass.!
July 23rd, 2014 at 6:13AM
Polish Peter, plus he’s collecting one, maybe two, pensions, and now he’s a top cop who’s been given operations’ responsibility over a department where the initial investigating authority in the event of misconduct may be . . . himself. (I don’t know if CSU’s police are sworn, armed LEOs with powers of arrest, investigation, etc.)
But, UD relentlessly points out that the folks who’re “working” higher ed have a pretty low coefficient of shame.