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
April 14th, 2016 at 5:29PM
UD, no need to invoke the Soviet Union to find analogies for UT fans. Your description of TN inertia is unfortunately apparent on many Indian reservations, especially those in the northern Mid-west. My cousin taught briefly at Pine Ridge some years back. I guess that’s what happens when you mix despair with bureaucratic hostility…
April 14th, 2016 at 5:59PM
charlie: It’s probably because of my Polish husband that I reach for vodka/communism analogies. But of course you’re right.
April 14th, 2016 at 6:01PM
I didn’t know that about Mr. UD….
April 14th, 2016 at 11:28PM
Despair . . . bureaucratic hostility . . . inertia . . . vodka-swilling . . . knocking back bourbon . . . Soviet. How’d you guess my Ohio ZIP code?
BTW-Tennessee, I think, is also the home of Hickok45, a You Tube guy who’s an articulate spokesman for America’s unique gun culture. Civic empowerment, a good relic of Northern English-Scots cantankerousness and distrust of government, historical and cultural artifacts, etc.
April 15th, 2016 at 12:53AM
Hey Jack, let me recommend something for you to read. It’s “Insurgent Workers: Studies in the Origins of Industrial Unionism.” The publisher is the UCLA Press and it’ll be very hard to find, but worth the effort. The book is a study of union insurgency during the 1930s. The part that is fascinating, imo, is what workers in Southern states were willing to do and endure, and the punishment they meted out to authority, including corp management, to get collective bargaining and industrial safety. When you see that legacy of getting off your ass and doing some god damn thing, then you have to wonder what hell has happened…
April 15th, 2016 at 7:13AM
Charlie, thanks. A very good boss I had told me, “Respect the people who work for you. If you can’t respect them–fake it. They’re the only people you have.”
April 15th, 2016 at 8:15AM
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/14/university-of-california-davis-paid-consultants-2011-protests
April 16th, 2016 at 8:51AM
Thanks dmf, very much appreciate it….
April 16th, 2016 at 8:58AM
Jack/OH, your quote is what my dad said to me. “I guess I’ve got to get along with you. You’re the only kid I’ve got.”