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
April 16th, 2015 at 12:48PM
Euro trash! You must be talking about those unwashed masses on the continent, not us Scots-Irish…..
April 16th, 2015 at 4:46PM
Heartland?! Well, yeah, there’s the Norman Rockwell angle, which is astonishingly real in parts. There’s also crystal meth and heroin out the wazoo, soul-curdling boredom and conformity, and once-thriving but now obsolete cities living on transfer payments.
No stretch of the moral imagination is needed here to recognize when people and institutions go bonkers.
charlie, we’re the guys who don’t have Waylon and Merle in the record collection. But, yeah, we’ve been picked on by the Crown–real or metaphoric.
April 16th, 2015 at 6:13PM
“You take hits”?
No, his girlfriends take hits.
Students at his university take hits.
His cellmates take hits
But, you, his coach? You don’t take hits.
You collect checks. Massive checks. Checks supported by taxpayers who fund donations and tuitions in multiple ways. Checks that often make you the most well-paid university employee. Checks that would embarrass any person with a shred of dignity and integrity.
April 16th, 2015 at 7:23PM
“There’s also crystal meth and heroin out the wazoo, soul-curdling boredom and conformity, and once-thriving but now obsolete cities living on transfer payments.”
Man, I miss Sacramento…..
April 20th, 2015 at 6:38AM
Nebraska certainly enabled Phillips and Incognito, but the former grew up in California and the latter in New Jersey, about as far away from the heartland as you can get. I suspect that their entitlement and self-control problems pre-dated their arrival on the prairie.
My guess is that a visibly-Jewish Jew (i.e., wearing a yarmulke or carrying a sign that says “I am a Jew”) would have less to worry about walking around Columbia, Missouri, Ames, Iowa, Lincoln, Nebraska, or Minneapolis, Minnesota, than, say, Berkeley, California.
April 20th, 2015 at 7:01AM
tp: Yes – it’s precisely the strangeness of a heartland community priding itself on heartland values deciding to make heroes of people like these (Nebraska continues to promote Incognito on its athletics website) that interests me. No one stopped the school’s cynical coaches from recruiting known disasters. Which is to say that it’s apparently a heartland value to care more about football than the welfare of your community.
You may be right about the relative public ease of a Jew in Berkeley vs. Minneapolis. Certainly a visible Jew is unlikely to have a great day walking around parts of very cosmopolitan Paris.
April 21st, 2015 at 1:09AM
@UD, theprofessor, the greatest danger Jews face might just be other Jews:
jonathanturley.org/2014/10/22/ultra-orthodox-jews-attack…
March 29th, 2022 at 9:23AM
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