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 16th, 2017 at 10:14PM
https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.v5me6qfgj
January 17th, 2017 at 1:33AM
And this on a federal holiday celebrating a serial plagiarist!
January 17th, 2017 at 1:46AM
Michael: True. He did it too.
January 19th, 2017 at 11:04AM
Didn’t a plagiarist vice-president just receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from his own boss? That doesn’t give anyone reason to believe that plagiarism disqualifies one from working in the White House. Unless plagiarists with “R” after their names are judged differently than those designated “D.”
January 19th, 2017 at 12:46PM
Jonah: Yes, Biden plagiarized in his speeches. He acknowledged it and apologized. Crowley plagiarized extensively for years and has neither apologized nor acknowledged, as far as I know. She withdrew from the appointment without any comment beyond some bland farewell.
If you’ve followed my plagiarism posts, I really don’t discriminate. My guess is that there are more Ds than Rs in the archives. I certainly however make distinctions in terms of degree and type of plagiarism.
January 19th, 2017 at 3:12PM
Do they now run MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations through something like Turnitin these days? We don’t have grad programs in arts and sciences here, and the few grad programs we have are test/practicum only. I do work a lot with faculty in the summertime from grad institutions, and no one has ever mentioned it.
January 19th, 2017 at 5:32PM
tp: Yes – as I understand it there are now tons of plagiarism detecting programs. There are also groups of people who work together on various cases…
January 31st, 2017 at 1:37PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/devos-questionnaire-appears-to-include-passages-from-uncited-sources/2017/01/31/50577dec-e7be-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
March 9th, 2024 at 11:31AM
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