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 25th, 2015 at 9:34PM
This sounds less like an educational issue and more like an incipient mental condition. Here’s more of the email:
April 26th, 2015 at 2:15AM
Dom: Yes.
April 26th, 2015 at 4:55AM
I defer to profs and teachers on this. But, I somehow feel for the guy.
April 26th, 2015 at 6:52AM
This takes me back to my undergraduate and graduate programs in business.
In an undergraduate stat class we were all having problems understanding the instructor. He would later in the year be arrested for getting into a fist fight at his son’s high school basketball game.
I questioned my instructors teaching style, having the students do all the work, in my first graduate class. The instructor marked me down as payback. Later he would admit he was not prepared to teach at this level despite having a sterling resume. This was also his first job after a business failure.
The ultimate was a graduate level marketing class taught by a go, go guy whose job hopping and performance promises had caught up with him. He was a drunk who was failing at his job and marriage. He did not show for class and when he did the material was wrong. I had had a number of marketing classes as an undergraduate and this stuff was not even close. Ultimately we were graded by a fellow classmate who I did not get along with and the Dean’s only comment was I had a problem.
Dean’s are not quick to look at instructors since they are “their guys.”
Steve Lucas
April 26th, 2015 at 9:26AM
I wonder how much support the guy was getting from the Administration if he needed to remove troublemakers or blatant cheaters. My guess would be, not much.
Nonetheless, obviously no excuse for the way he handled it. More proof, if more was needed, that understanding “management” at a theoretical level does not automatically make someone an effective manager in practice.