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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
December 2nd, 2014 at 7:30PM
OK. I’m just going to admit it. I think the following phrase in the story makes it funnier: “professor of post-colonial literature.”
December 2nd, 2014 at 8:56PM
So I wonder who the one professor is at UNLV who voted against firing . . .
December 2nd, 2014 at 9:28PM
Dave: You read my mind. I would LOVE to read that dissenting opinion.
December 2nd, 2014 at 10:08PM
According to the CHE, the lone dissenter argued that he “be suspended for a year and required to forfeit six years’ worth of pay increases, apologize to his victims, undergo ethics training, and submit to plagiarism-software analysis any scholarly work he intends to submit to publishers over the next three years.” So not much of a dissent.
I’m amazed that the university relied on turnitin to identify all his plagiarizing. It’s official. No one reads anymore.
December 3rd, 2014 at 12:02AM
Anonymous: Thanks for that detail from CHE.
I find the dissent astounding. This professor was a bigshot at UNLV, one of their stars. He is a man in his – I’d guess – fifties. So the dissenter proposes that after a one year paid (I presume) suspension he return to his very high-profile position, salary again intact, and while being one of the leaders of the humanities division, have everything he writes checked for plagiarism, and begin the same you shouldn’t plagiarize sessions freshmen take.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mustapha Marrouchi! The best UNLV can do!
(And by the way: He’s been plagiarizing for so long that many of his apologies would have to go to his victims’ estates.)
December 3rd, 2014 at 3:22PM
Those in disbelief over the “turnitin” element of this story: the press release doesn’t say anything about how he came to be investigated in the first place. People do read. Humans caught this, albeit with the aid of search engines. And if you’re thinking “how could anybody hire this guy?” — ask the other universities who hired him, especially the one who promoted him. That wasn’t UNLV. Or ask the myriad of respectable journals (peer-reviewed) who published his book, or SUNY Press, which published his book on Said, where he plagiarizes Said. Or Claremont Graduate Center, who has had him lecture as a visiting scholar (it’s on YouTube). Better yet, find an article of his, click on a purple passage and Google it. See how long it takes you to find his plagiarized source. In other words, if people are so dismayed about this news, about people not reading any more, try reading something he “wrote.” The “autobiographical” work is especially rich. Just FYI.
December 3rd, 2014 at 3:23PM
Correction: “published his WORK.”
December 3rd, 2014 at 3:27PM
Oh, and THEY found 18 people he’d plagiarized. I’d bet the full figure is closer to 60-100.
December 3rd, 2014 at 4:50PM
Anon in LV: I’m sure you’re right that the actual figure is much, much higher.
I also found it interesting that the guy didn’t appear before the review board, didn’t make any effort to defend himself. The whole thing is absolutely damning – of him and of others.
April 3rd, 2015 at 2:17PM
Mustapha Marrouchi was caught in the 90’s at the university of Manouba plagiarising. He got the sack and he went back to Canada. It is a damn shme that Mustapha has been plagiarising. he does not represent Tunisia although he he is Tunisian.By the way, I was his student in Tunisia at the university of Manouba.
April 4th, 2015 at 1:53PM
Adel: Thanks for that comment. It’s totally amazing that his career lasted so long – and who knows? Maybe there’s yet another country that will allow him to continue …