Rate My Professors got there before UD did.
It’s very dangerous, teaching chemistry in Pocatello, and you’ve got to pack heat.
Rate My Professors got there before UD did.
It’s very dangerous, teaching chemistry in Pocatello, and you’ve got to pack heat.
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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.
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
September 3rd, 2014 at 2:55PM
Awesome…
September 3rd, 2014 at 10:35PM
Hate to be on that guy’s retention committee, if only because it’d be so hard to keep a straight face.
September 4th, 2014 at 6:04AM
“Guns don’t shoot professors in the foot, professors . . . .” I like the young woman who’ll be taking safety courses so she doesn’t shoot herself in the foot. Yup, I suppose that learning how not to shoot yourself is a step toward firearms proficiency.
(My handgun-owning days were some thirty years ago. Firearms proficiency (including safety) is all about drill–low-end repetitive learning by practicing over and over. Long story short: you’re responsible for every discharge from your weapon, including accidental and negligent discharges.)
September 4th, 2014 at 9:30AM
“You’re responsible for every discharge…including accidental and negligent discharges.”
Many an abandoned lass wishes it were so.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:47AM
Had he jumped backwards to sit on a table at the front of his class, as I sometimes do — though in my case without the heat — the pistol would have been leveled straight at his students. Considerably more serious than the sort of poetic justice in “toot, toot, tootsie, goodbye.” Gives new meaning to the old saw: “look to the right of you and to the left: some of you may not be here at the semester’s end. Perhaps on line classes are becoming better bets, all things considered.
September 4th, 2014 at 11:54AM
I’m not a fan of RMP, but I do appreciate the earlier comments that describe him as squirrelish and fidgety. Indeed.
September 4th, 2014 at 1:19PM
Anonymous: Indeed, all the RMP comments on this professor are well worth reading. UD
September 5th, 2014 at 8:54AM
Arrrrgh. RMP took down the comment. What a shame.
September 5th, 2014 at 9:16AM
Van: I know – a lot of people are coming to my blog because I’m one of the few blogs that recorded the comment.