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 4th, 2014 at 4:05PM
That was one of the things that struck me, too — Williams’ apparent certainty that a governor should be able to tell researchers at a state university what to study, and they’d hop to it. Apparently we have very different ideas of how the system is supposed to work (but/and I’m afraid Williams’ idea may be where we’re heading).
Has anybody suggested appointing Williams to the UVA board yet? He might fit in very well.
September 4th, 2014 at 7:57PM
Contingent Cassandra: Williams on the board – LOL.
September 7th, 2014 at 4:00AM
Williams also suggested testing it on state employees. You’ll love these pills! Tobacco, like grapefruit, has odd biochemical effects, but that’s not what makes it special. There’s a Tobacco Fund run by an apparently corrupt board down in Southside Va., which handles the money from the tobacco settlement.
Some hawking an all-things-connected theory have tried to tie the Williams scandal to the Dragas scandal (firing the president of UVa). Nothing there. Williams claimed a Johns Hopkins researcher liked his pills. Dragas likely planned to nominate a JHU medical administrator as the new UVA pres. But the JHU claim by Williams was untrue and investors sued him for using it to pump up the stock value.
The most likely scenarios are that Williams was doing anything to build a pill company, and Dragas was trying to make her name by transforming higher ed in an entrepreneurial big ideas game. Or she humored the big ideas people in pursuit of a regime change. Some key actors on and near the UVa board were new ideas enthusiasts reminiscent of the throbbing teenager in Alan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind, or a bad TED talk. They were more New Age (UVa Contemplative Sciences Center) than evangelical (Gov. McDonnell, Atty. Gen. Cucinelli, and, I suppose, Jonnie Williams), but when it comes to money, what’s the difference?
(For details on how magic tobacoo pills are just plausible enough to sell a scam, see the journalistic account here: http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/a-chemical-romance/Content?oid=1920271 )
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