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 30th, 2016 at 1:45PM
Well UD, just to let you know, Notre Dame is finishing up renovating their football stadium at the cost of at least $400 million.
crossroads.nd.edu/faqs/
That’s nearly twice as much as that other religious uni, Baylor, spent on building their new football palace. Of course, if you read the link, construction costs are to be paid by new seating, luxury boxes, and, oh yeah, bonds.
Someone should do a study to see the correlation between the way unis handle player criminality and the amount of money spent on athletic buildouts. Stands to reason that if uni admins are putting this much debt on their balance sheets that more than a few things are going to be overlooked….
August 30th, 2016 at 2:07PM
charlie: Yes. A lot of these schools simply can’t afford to let certain players go. Which is why Mississippi State’s defensive lineman just got his fourth of what will certainly be many more arrests.
August 30th, 2016 at 2:31PM
That’s amazing, even by SEC standards.
What’s even more amazing is that the economic sustainability of many unis isn’t predicated on the BOT’s or admin competence, Faculty Senate input nor alumni support. No, it’s based on the capacity of a few important athletes to stay healthy or stay outta jail. If your outstanding QB blows out a knee or blows past a police checkpoint, the prospects for some uni’s finances get real sketchy. What a hell of situation….
August 30th, 2016 at 4:11PM
We have a lot of ND fans around here, UD, and they are as fanatically committed as ever. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a long line of penitents at the confessional.
Whoever would have believed even a decade ago that we would reach a point where Northwestern, which in living memory has had a only a dozen decent seasons and been ranked in the top 10 once in the last 60 years, is dropping $260 million on a football stadium?
August 30th, 2016 at 4:41PM
tp: Yeah, I don’t think football repentance is going to catch on in a very big way at ND.
As for NU, where I was an undergrad and where (I wrote about this on the blog at some point) I distinctly remember going to a football game with a bunch of ironist/nihilists who knew we’d lose by about sixty points – and we did lose by about sixty points – and who turned the whole thing into a hilarious weed-fueled delight — look what’s happened since then. Pity.
August 30th, 2016 at 4:49PM
charlie,
for the vast majority of schools, athletics is not contributing to economic sustainability. which makes the whole thing sadder.
August 30th, 2016 at 5:59PM
Yeah John, I don’t think more than a dozen unis out of, what, 119 schools that make up D1 teams, have profitable athletic programs. Ain’t life grand?
August 30th, 2016 at 9:09PM
Notre Dame loves it some visibility with Texas high school athletes. Note that ND plays my alma mater, Army, in San Antonio November 12. Lots of connection with the military and with the Catholic Church, but still . . . .
Yeah, I’m gonna go to the game. It takes a brave man to be an Army fan. I was there in the fall of 1973 when ND beat us 63-3 at West Point.