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
May 8th, 2015 at 4:22PM
“And some professors are dupes. They actually think the sports program contributes significant money to the academic side of their university. In almost every case, they are wrong, and they could discover they’re wrong. Yet they remain in a sort of bad-faith fog about it.”
UD wrote this back in ’06. Since then, we’ve only heard the same PR hacks yapping about the benefits of football programs, their ability to generate revenue and increased enrollment, and bring in big money contributions from anywhere and everywhere. So shut the hell up about the cost of the football program, none of yass know what’s yass talkin bout.
LSU’s bankruptcy puts an end to that idiocy. The flagship of LA, the featured public institution, and the state doesn’t have enough resources to maintain the school’s academic integrity. What about all that crap that admins and marketing shills have been saying, with increasing hostility, of the sanctity of the game, how you can’t have a legit school without a big time football team. You can’t get any bigger than LSU, usually in the National Championship hunt, a first division member of the most prestigious football conference in America. And yet, it flounders, and the only solution that I’ve heard is get rid of tenured profs and close departments. What is going on in Baton Rouge is the future of higher education, football won’t be touched, academics will be further degraded. A hell of a lot of USAAmericans believed nonsense, the consequences of such stupidity will become evident….
May 11th, 2015 at 3:25PM
The athletics skeptics don’t get called names here, UD…the admin & other jock-sniffers just look at us like we’re aliens from outer space. After all, everyone who mattersknows that university education doesn’t just take place in a classroom or library. In fact, most of it doesn’t take place in a classroom or interacting with some prof or book. Come to think of it, almost none of it takes place in a traditionally academic setting. The real venues for learning are the basketball court or maybe the soccer fields, where students learn valuable leadership skills.
May 11th, 2015 at 4:51PM
tp: LOL. Extreme LOL.