Sometimes UD likes to imagine people from… well, almost any other country in the world reading things like this. About universities.
Sometimes UD likes to imagine people from… well, almost any other country in the world reading things like this. About universities.
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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
June 13th, 2015 at 1:02PM
I love this caption on the photograph: “Former LSU running back Kenny Hilliard is a prime example of a college athlete who against all odds took full advantage of his scholarship by earning a Bachelors degree last December”
How true! What are the odds that an LSU running back would earn a degree?
June 13th, 2015 at 1:45PM
JND: LOL.
June 13th, 2015 at 7:45PM
“But I’m tired of Rush and others constantly bleating about how college athletes are exploited.
Many athletes come from homes with limited funds to cover the cost of ever-rising tuition. Attending college is a dream.
Scholarship athletes don’t have to pay a penny for housing, meals and books. They are provided with tutors and are able to study in high-tech academic centers with the latest equipment. They receive free athletic clothing and shoes, via their school’s lucrative contract with Nike, adidas, Under Armour, etc.
They train in some of the best athletic facilities in the world. They usually play in conferences that get maximum exposure through national TV contracts.”
This from the linked article. The writer claims he’s tired, I guess he was too tired to ask the players what they thought of all the free stuff, all the training they’re required to do, (doesn’t bother to mention that), why only by selling body and brain do they have the ability to attend a public uni. Maybe he, and his bosses, were afraid of what the answers would be.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/us/northwestern-football-union/
Northwestern Uni footballers realized that they couldn’t fulfill the student part of the student athlete equation, not with the 40 to 50 hours that football required during the regular season, the many required hours spent on football related duties in offseason. In fact, the players claimed, and the NLRB agreed, they’re employees, with no control, nor say, with what occurs with their collegiate lives. Of course they don’t have to pay for tuition, nor any of the other things mentioned above. They’re employees, and they organized in order to have a say in all of the wonders supposedly laid at their feet….