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
October 27th, 2015 at 12:22AM
To add to the nausea, Nevin Shapiro, the former rainmaker for U of Miami’s athletic department and academic side, is in prison for running a near $1 billion ponzi scheme. He came by it honestly, his step dad also served time for doing much the same thing. Nevin’s girlfriend also was implicated in a massive rip off of her own.
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/nevin-shapiro-is-the...
Donna Shalala, the U of M pres during much of the Shapiro era, was a former Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. How is it possible that Donna couldn’t have picked up the phone, called whatever government contact she had available, and asked if they had anything on a guy who was getting on really famously with her AD? That’s seems to have been the least she could have done, given all the scandal and corruption that had taken place at The U prior to her arrival. If she, or any of the other admins employed at the school, had done the very minimum, they would have realized that a swindler’s stepson was dumping millions on her uni. I don’t know if the folks running U of M, including Shalala, were math majors. But it wouldn’t have taken that much to have figured where Nevin was getting his money. If anyone believes The U’s official narrative, then they’re too stupid to be anywhere near a university….
October 29th, 2015 at 11:36AM
Keep in mind that Shalala was a major league jock-sniffer from her Wisconsin days, so during her Miami gig, she was just running true to form. Corrupt as all get-out, which was undoubtedly her primary attraction to Bill and Hill.