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
June 3rd, 2017 at 9:37AM
Funny you should mention Penn State frats.
I’m Shmacked The Movie-Penn State (throwback) Youtube
http://www.youtube.com?watch?=c6thTAPX124
Sorry, can’t embed from my device. Or go to the I’m Shmacked website and put Penn State in the search engine.
Point being, that despite all that’s gone on at Happy Valley, the admins use heavy drinking, frats and football games as primary marketing tools. If you’re thinking that Penn State admins aren’t using I’m Shmacked for promotion, the various universities that are featured have to compete with each other in order to get the producers on campus. Further, the book stores are heavily promoted because the swag with uni logos and trademarks are readily seen. If admins didn’t want their institutions depicted as they are in these vids, they could claim copyright infringement and the content would be pulled. The fact that they haven’t means those schools know their market segments far better than we do, and debauchery is a prime tool to get these idiots to go deep in debt to attend.
No matter what Penn State claims, the fact that this vid, which also features frats, is still on the I’m Shmacked website, indicates the craven nature of the folks who run that place. This website has a huge teenage and young adult following. Anybody who honestly thinks that someone using this crap as a primary tool for enrollment decisions cares about academic quality is delusional.
But it also indicates that unis are pretty much in a battle to maintain any semblance of status quo. They cannot appeal to academic rigor because very few prospects can do hard scholarship, nor care to even try. That bullshit is for parents and alumni, the real deal is seen with these vids. Keep in mind that Penn State is the third most expensive public university.
10 Colleges With The Highest Tuition for In-State Students
http://www.usnews.com/educational/best-colleges/
If you’re PSU, how do you get kids to pay that much to attend? Well, it ain’t due to the academics….