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
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:06AM
Texas and Texas A&M can do this sort of silly shit because they have enough rich donors.
North Texas? Not so much.
Will we ever live to see the idiots who do these sorts of things held accountable?
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:13AM
JND: Good point. If you have lots of money, you can toddle along very nicely, subsidizing multiple coaches who left decades ago.
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:49AM
It isn’t university related, but same neck of the woods: Did you see that the Texas Rangers are going to be getting a new stadium using hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to replace their (beautiful, I might add) stadium that was built 22 years ago?
Big-time college football is scummy, but it’s often not delusional per se. But the idea that in college football the University of North Texas (or UNLV, or New Mexico State, or what have you) are ever going to be anything other than the University of North Texas (or UNLV, or New Mexico State, or what have you) is the perfect combination of delusion and grift. Indeed, if you act as if you’re under the spell of the former you’re probably better positioned to benefit from the latter.
June 22nd, 2016 at 3:03PM
JND: “Will we ever live to see the idiots who do these sorts of things held accountable?”
“No consequences.” That’s what a middling administrator told me when I asked how is our Podunk Tech’s leadership getting away with a whole mess of questionable (I’m being very nice) activity. State regents don’t want to get involved; trustees are, with rare exceptions, political hacks; profs and staffers are cowed salary-earners. Makes me think, somehow, of Robert Moses, in his capacity at the top of the heap of the politically insulated “public authorities”.