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 10th, 2015 at 11:09AM
Actually, it is worse then that as they did not start the law school from scratch (if they had, I suspect they would have done a better job) but took over a failing private law school that had never been able to attract enough quality students or accreditation.
May 10th, 2015 at 12:20PM
Would it be of any comfort to know that the UC’s are also building law schools nobody needs?
insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2012/07/the..
May 10th, 2015 at 12:24PM
It’s even worse than that – the law school was originally started primarily to serve Rhode Island, which had no law school at the time. The first location was virtually on the state line.
May 10th, 2015 at 3:53PM
In my aging, economically declining area we’ve added a proprietary college and greatly expanded a community college in the last ten years. Why?
May 10th, 2015 at 8:35PM
@Jack/OH, the same reason for both, Wall Street makes a fortune from both situations….
May 11th, 2015 at 5:07AM
Charlie, uh, yeah–somebody’s making out on the higher ed deal. The county south of me has seen a 25% population drop since its 1960 peak. That county’s major city is down 60% from its 1930 peak. The local higher-ed student body is nonetheless ten times or more what it was a half-century ago.
Back to UD’s law school post and related links. I’m so glad I rejected law school forty years ago. I had the LSAT chops, etc., but I think I calculated correctly that without family or other connections to better-quality law firms, I’d end up as a poorly paid permanent associate with no chance of partnership.
May 11th, 2015 at 6:55AM
Scott Lemieux posts regularly on law schools and ‘law schools’ at the Lawyers, Guns, & Money blog. Here’s a sample:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/05/on-top-of-a-huge-pile-of-money-with-many-beautiful-ladies
May 11th, 2015 at 10:47AM
@Jack/OH, no denying that student population demos, but the question is why are school districts and unis approaching the problem by firing teachers, increasing class sizes, all the while, going on massive capital/plant building jags? Well, precisely because of the reasons that Orange County, CA, decided to use Capital Appreciation Bonds to do the financing. What that means, no increased taxes, no bond servicing, but the bonds mature at far higher rates than if they had bothered to use traditional methods. The upshot, increasing class size and falling academic achievement.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bonds-496091-school-bank.html
The most telling part of the article is that Wall Street bond palaces are the biggest lobbyists and cheerleaders for the debt issuance. They have also been financing for profits unis, the one that you stated went up in your neighborhood, and pushing for massive increases in all of that building going on at the CC in your depreciating part of the world. UMASS isn’t any different, they’ve gone on a building jag, mainly for a football stadium, which has been financed by the same institutions which are draining k-12 and public unis of resources, creating a degraded pedagogy, due to the fact that all that debt has to be serviced, one way or the other.
May 11th, 2015 at 3:33PM
Our local CC has expanded despite a nearly stagnant population size because it is a steady source of patronage jobs (not so much for faculty as for staff and administration).
May 12th, 2015 at 2:30AM
theprofessor–oh, yeah. I’ll guess any organization can maintain focus with a wee bit of patronage, cronyism, nepotism, and other irregular hires. There may be some critical mass of irregular hires where the organization just dissolves into a paycheck-collecting scheme with nominal cover activity.
December 4th, 2015 at 5:36AM
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