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
January 6th, 2017 at 3:56PM
Congrats on the new GWU president.
January 6th, 2017 at 4:32PM
Anon: He and his wife rappel! This impresses me.
January 8th, 2017 at 2:35PM
Just remember the priorities at the modern American university:
Teaching is ok, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of research,
Research is ok, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of fund raising,
Fund raising is ok, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of football.
January 10th, 2017 at 12:20PM
Your new president, perhaps consulting with his old boss Shalala, will no doubt find a way to drive GWU to the same heights of excellence as Miami. Something like a Division I football team would be a good start.
January 10th, 2017 at 12:44PM
tp: LOL. I’m not sure he’s like Shalala, despite coming from sordid UM. Seems a rather more serious STEM sort…
As you know, I consider GW’s somehow having overlooked acquiring a football team by far the smartest thing the place ever did. I’m probably not alone in that opinion.
January 10th, 2017 at 2:23PM
If there is one solitary thing I will give our own President Peterprinciple credit for (otherwise a catastrophe in slow motion), it is helping to defuse the desire of some trustees to bring back football. I hope that your new prez can make a clean break from that aspect of Miami.
January 10th, 2017 at 7:11PM
He does seem very different from Shalala, but she hired him and they seemed to get along just fine though many a scandal. I don’t think there were many tears shed when they announced he was leaving.
I hope it works out for you.