[University of Louisville President James] Ramsey has been in hot water with the university as faculty and staff have polled for a no-confidence vote due to negative publicity and claims of mismanagement. U of L and the Foundation have also been in an ongoing state audit, which was stalled by late submissions from the university three weeks ago…
… Ramsey was paid $2.8 million by the University of Louisville Foundation in 2014, $1 million more than he was paid in 2013.
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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
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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
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Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
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Medical Humanities Blog
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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
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More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
May 27th, 2016 at 5:04PM
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/27/ole-miss-penalties-breaking-ncaa-rules-basketball-football-track
May 30th, 2016 at 8:10AM
The problem with no-confidence votes is that universities are not parliaments, and they have no necessary consequences. They make a better threat than result. There was a president of a public university in this state who had something like half a dozen faculty and staff no-confidence votes, with huge majorities against him, over the course of a decade. It did not make a bit of difference to their board. He stayed until retirement and rode off into the sunset, rich and happy.
May 30th, 2016 at 11:40AM
Dear UD, Just a note on my alma mater, U.of Minnesota’s athletic dept. Recently found out wrestling team selling xanax.
Wrestling coach knew but never informed admin or U.of M. Police.
Check “StarTribune” for headlined story. Regards, Will.
May 30th, 2016 at 12:30PM
will: Many thanks – another reader recently sent me something about this – tells me it’s a bizarre story. Thanks for the reminder.
May 30th, 2016 at 12:31PM
tp: I guess in principle such votes are supposed to be part of a much larger case you’re making against the person – putting that much more pressure on him/her. But you’re right that they can be meaningless.