According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, she has a series of rules that are clear to everyone. These include: 1) Only she is authorized to set the temperature in conference rooms; 2) Cabinet members all rise when she enters the room; 3) If food is served at a meeting, vice presidents clear her plate; and 4) She is always to be publicly introduced as “The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson.”
The Great and Powerful President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Money Law
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
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Medical Humanities Blog
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Ducks and Drakes
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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 15th, 2014 at 2:57PM
And nuts must be served on plates, not in bags?
December 15th, 2014 at 4:11PM
And what about the vegetables?
December 15th, 2014 at 5:02PM
In the unlikely case you missed it, the object of the nut reference:
“Nut Rage”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30468203
December 15th, 2014 at 5:25PM
Whew! With a bit of imaginative rewrite, the article about ‘er Loidyship could be an encyclopedia entry for some nasty countess from pre-revolutionary Europe.
December 15th, 2014 at 7:56PM
If you use the urban dictionary to look up bitch on roller skates I bet her pitcher is there.
December 16th, 2014 at 12:21PM
How in the US does an academic get the title, “Honorable,” anyway, if not holding a political office?
At Gilligan, it is an associate vice president who clears the dishes if the palace servants are not at hand.
August 28th, 2015 at 1:31AM
A little late to be answering this question, but for the record: One way is by serving on the National Council on the Humanities or the one on the arts, the NEH and NEA advisory bodies. Those positions are filled by presidential commission and are entitled to “the Honorable.” Of course, anyone who uses that form is a twit.
August 28th, 2015 at 6:31AM
Absolutely, John R.