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
March 5th, 2016 at 6:10PM
A few years ago, David Horowitz came out with something resembling a book entitled, “The Professors: 101 Most Dangerous Academics.” Funny thing, he never got around to the business/law schools which were pumping out the well trained crooks that were fleecing their customers. For all that Ward Churchill said, he never once lent his name to a for profit loan mill, among other things….
March 5th, 2016 at 7:52PM
charlie: I think it’s a very important point you’re making, one that I’ve touched on now and then on this blog: From what I can tell over years and years of reading and writing about what goes on in American universities, engineering and med school professors are far more dangerous than humanities types, and b-school guys are fuggedaboutit.
March 5th, 2016 at 10:42PM
UD, thanks for clearing up my lack of context. Horowitz was/is an odious tool for the hacks that wanted to attack the liberal arts departments. He went after folks like Eric Foner, bell hooks, John Bellamy Foster, who have never, to my knowledge, had their efficacy questioned. But as you point out, the STEM folks are the ones cramming as much ill gotten NSF/NIH money as they can into their LLC accounts. As far as the b-school dudes are concerned, all yazz needs is one word. Enron….
March 6th, 2016 at 2:38PM
I got called out by one of his minions on Horowitz’s website! I was the equivalent of all content that isn’t quite good enough to get into print but for which there is room on the internet!!!
March 6th, 2016 at 3:42PM
Derek: That’s gotta hurt.
March 6th, 2016 at 7:52PM
Engineering undergraduate here. Business MBA and Ph.D., with the MBA from . . . Wharton. Somehow, I’m missing out on my share of the money.
All alumni rags are too quick to worship at the altar of financially successful graduates. Years ago, my undergraduate alumni magazine did a cover story puff piece on Chainsaw Al Dunlap. If it ever ran a mea culpa, I missed it.
March 6th, 2016 at 8:49PM
JND: Had to look up Chainsaw Al Dunlap — such a great name! And quite a story.