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
November 26th, 2014 at 12:21PM
$60 million is just the victim restitution. Another $80 million in costs, and $36 million still due to the NCAA fund.
November 26th, 2014 at 12:34PM
Anon: Many thanks. I knew that couldn’t be the full amount, but couldn’t find a source for it. I’ll amend the post.
November 26th, 2014 at 1:59PM
Keep in mind that public unis must maintain prime debt rating, otherwise, they’ll lose state funding and accreditation. Piling on increasing liabilities, at some point, will lower debt rating to below public mandates. Moody’s put Penn State under review in 2012, and purportedly, the admins fixed things. The result, PennState is one of the most expensive public unis in the nation. How many thousands of PA taxpayers are precluded from attending the school because of the cost? How many graduates are burdened with an over sized debt, a large measure of which goes to pay for the criminality of the putative adults who ran the joint?
November 26th, 2014 at 3:42PM
Good questions Charlie. To my friends who love college sports I ask the same kinds of questions but they think every college is Alabama with its huge income. On another note, a poster on another web site referred to UNC as the University of No Classes.
November 26th, 2014 at 8:00PM
Easy to get sucked into believing what your buddies think, when CFB is on cable four days a week during the season. All that coverage, everyone must be making huge money, at least that what the admins get you to think.
University of No Classes, epic….
November 27th, 2014 at 1:22PM
Charlie, Penn State was one of the most expensive public unis LOOOOOOOOOONG before Sandusky. The combination of declining support from the legislature beginning in the 1980s and rising admin costs common in most universities put them near the top. Pitt and Penn State are #1 and #2 in the nation.
And, the notion that this has a huge impact on students, student attendance, or debt burden demonstrates a ludicrous misunderstanding of higher education financing. Even if Penn State charged that entire amount to students in the academic years from 2011 to now, it’s under $500 per student per year. While not huge, that’s still not insignificant. But, actually, however, the dollars are being paid by Penn State’s liability insurer and from profits from auxiliary enterprises (like athletics, where PSU has drawn down from its athletics reserve fund).
November 27th, 2014 at 2:15PM
@Anon, so, not only was Penn State facilitating a pedophile for quite some time, it was scamming its students for even longer.
And what kind of insanity have you plunged into that you would think that simply having your insurer pay for the crimes is some kind of palliative to the massive incompetence of the admins? Are you trying to say that as long as we keep our premiums current, the students, faculty, alumni and taxpayers have nothing to worry about?
And that’s not even the half of it. The Second Mile Foundation, which Sandusky founded in the late 70’s, was where the heavy lifting of all his crimes took place. But on BOT were some of the big hitters of Penn State, including the pres, JoePa, and assorted political wheeler dealers, which did business with PSU. Yet, despite the fact they knew of Sandusky, they retained him only until a couple of years prior to his arrest. That is all in the wake of a prior investigation of his criminal activity. They still allowed him to work with SMF.