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 29th, 2016 at 11:31AM
Maybe he knew tenure wasn’t in his future. A guy’s gotta do something….
April 29th, 2016 at 5:23PM
Charlie, I’ll see you and raise you. My local Podunk Tech announced just today its police chief will be on paid administrative leave pending an “ongoing investigation into fiscal and operational matters and/or misuse of management authority”, according to the letter relieving him and quoted in the media today.
April 30th, 2016 at 10:59AM
Grifting campus cops, professors with arsenals. You can’t satirize something that’s already a parody. What’s next, on campus whorehouses, classes where no one meets, players on the payroll? Oh, wait….
April 30th, 2016 at 7:07PM
Charlie, Chief Dawg getting canned blindsided me. He’d been protected by an influential patron who got him the job. Our local media is on top of this with public records requests. I’ll wait for the results of the investigation, but I don’t know yet who’s conducting it, or whether there’ll be a fight to get the results made public.
I know to a certainty that several campus patrolmen and sergeants despised the man. Unjustified sting operations, dubiously motivated video surveillance, etc., kind of edging close to civilly actionable misconduct.
The trouble with these damned patronage hires is that some of them feel compelled to go overboard trying to demonstrate they were merit hires.
April 30th, 2016 at 9:00PM
Jack/OH, if a civil action does occur and the settlements are significant, I wonder who will be the folks who ultimately be made to pay….
May 1st, 2016 at 3:12AM
Podunk Tech carries some sort of legal liability insurance. Don’t know any details. There’ve been high six-figure settlements made by Podunk for past wrong-doing committed by the university.
Remember comedian Tom Arnold’s line that America’s worst nightmare is white trash with money? I hate to get all sociocultural ‘n’ stuff, but imagine America’s worst nightmare as Euro- and trailer-park trash ascending to the leadership of America’s universities so they can work out some power- and ego-trip issues draped in nominal intellectual respectability.
The Tuesday before Chief Dawg was sacked, the student paper published a letter by a prof who noted, among other things, that two mid-career profs who’d achieved good recognition, NEH grants, etc., were boogieing from Podunk Tech for flagship universities in the South. Podunk Tech doesn’t care.
May 2nd, 2016 at 4:07PM
Update: the director of purchasing at Podunk Tech was canned and escorted from the premises by campus police the same day Chief Dawg was given his walking papers.
Those of us who still give a rat’s hoo-haw about our once well-regarded small-time college for crummy immigrant people who wanted to better themselves really need to demand an unbiased investigation.
May 2nd, 2016 at 7:00PM
Jack, is the nickname of Podunk Tech by any chance The Penguins?