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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
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
August 13th, 2016 at 1:30PM
As a UMass Faculty Senator who voted in favor of the motion, I would like to add that many, if not most, of the Senators voting against it were deans and other higher-level administrators who were Senators ex officio but had voting rights because they also held academic appointments.
August 13th, 2016 at 2:47PM
a nonbinding motion? sigh…
August 13th, 2016 at 2:50PM
Brian: Yup.
August 13th, 2016 at 6:29PM
dmf: The motion was non-binding because the Faculty Senate’s role in shared governance is limited to academic affairs. It doesn’t have the right to dictate policy about athletics, but it can express its opinion.
August 14th, 2016 at 11:27AM
Brian, what FS have realized that if their admins are borrowing money for supposedly non-academic functions, then it’s going to hit academics. UMASS, from what I’ve read, borrowed a heaping bunch for athletic build-outs. No matter what ADs nor their satraps will claim, there is no way that ain’t hitting the academic side of the institution. The UC faculty asked why, if tuition has risen so dramatically the past decade, it wasn’t manifesting in the classroom. This is what they found out:
They Pledge Your Tuition: The Council of UC Faculty Association
cucfa.org/news/tuition_bonds.php
When any uni takes on debt for recreation centers, luxury dorms or stadiums, the student loans become the collateral. That money is earmarked for the debt service and very little will be left for anything else. What’s taking place at the UCs is the same mechanism used throughout the country….