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
April 27th, 2017 at 8:48AM
@andrewrsorkin Apr 11
What timing! Harvard Business Review is out w/ a repudiation of “agency theory” that @duffmcdonald says ruined HBS. http://bit.ly/2o2mqR5
April 28th, 2017 at 1:11AM
Thanks for that link. The Milton Friedman charade dies hard.
April 28th, 2017 at 5:45PM
Serious question: can a med school (or any school) rescind a degree that was legitimately earned? It would be one thing if some sort of fraud were to be discovered in their actual degree, but are there any grounds to simply take away from someone a degree that was legitimately granted? And if so, does this not open up a serious Pandora’s Box?
I fully support the condemnation. I just do not see a real legal way forward to simply say “that degree you paid for and that we granted? You did stuff afterward that we don’t approve of, so you no longer have that degree.”
April 29th, 2017 at 6:42AM
dcat: It may depend on the university, but in many cases, yes. Here’s one example.
April 29th, 2017 at 9:43AM
However, maybe the state licensing agency for MD’s could revoke her license?
April 29th, 2017 at 10:22AM
EB: Yes – assuming she is convicted, she will certainly have her license to practice revoked. She made it even easier for this to happen by having her crime be one directly related to the practice of medicine.
But I think it’s important that in cases like this we go not just for cutting but for full removal – license, medical degree, etc.
April 29th, 2017 at 11:56AM
Right, but that case hardly seems like a clean example of how to revoke a degree. I get wanting to disassociate from someone, but no matter how awful the crimes, this seems like a fairly actionable case. If someone earned a degree, they earned a degree. This seems like a lousy precedent, because once you start takkng away rightfully earned degrees for one thing, who is to say you cannot take it away for lesser sins? Can Liberty take away BA’s for those who after graduating commit adultery? I don’t see the connection. Sure, it will make people feel good about their righteousness, but it seems like the sort of erasure that cannot really be justified on the merits.