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
February 4th, 2015 at 8:14AM
No transfer student is going to sue–if you willingly transfer and even pay more, you’ll have a tough time making a case. If, on the other hand, you attended a school under the impression that admissions were competitive, and then the school turned around and admitted a lot of weaker students, you’d have a reasonable argument that you’ve been the victim of a bait & switch. Sounds good enough to me for a class action suit. If only those law students knew some trained lawyers with lots of time on their hands . . .
February 4th, 2015 at 9:00AM
It’s tough to get too excited about this when it is exactly the way that the current US president got into an Ivy League university.
February 4th, 2015 at 9:44AM
It’s tough to get too excited about this when it is exactly the way that the current US president got into an Ivy League university.
Points for getting a partisan slam into an otherwise unrelated post. Deductions for the silliness of it, though.
February 4th, 2015 at 2:23PM
…exactly the way… Because Occidental is exactly like Arizona Summit? Am I missing something?
February 9th, 2015 at 9:44AM
The transfer backdoor has been wide open at many places for years in both undergraduate and some graduate professional programs, and it exists not to give disadvantaged slow starters a second chance at a prestige degree after excelling at their initial schools, but to top up the institutional finances of the transfer institution. Transfers typically get much smaller amounts of institutional aid, so these students (or Uncle Sugar, or the state, or other outside funding source) pay more.
The level of academic denial concerning many aspects of the current president’s career never fails to amaze.