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 17th, 2017 at 12:29PM
the “that’s what leaders do” smugness is really hard to take.
June 19th, 2017 at 1:10PM
I don’t get your argument under “Second”.
You think that a Louisville basketball recruit is “trembling on the verge of sex”? Almost all of them would find it much harder to come up with $1000 than to get laid. A kid being recruited by a major basketball program has been treated like a young god for years and does not lack for female attention.
June 19th, 2017 at 2:32PM
dcat:
There’s high-school female attention and there’s professional female attention in an orgy setting. The strapping young Duke lacrosse gods also hired strippers (before everything went very wrong); Nevin Shapiro bought prostitutes for dozens of University of Miami gods. Every one of these guys knows what “impermissible benefits” means, and they still went for it. Why? Because it’s “crazy.” Because it’s a “lure.” Boosters and coaches wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work really well.
A strong recruiting program already of course has a well-established “hostess” program, which may well include willing coeds (although for some reason people find these programs scandalous, and some schools have begun closing them down). Louisville, Miami, and other cutting edge programs went to the next level because it makes all kinds of sense to go to the next level.
June 20th, 2017 at 8:18AM
Yes, you’re telling me things we already know. You’re also telling me something different from your assertion that I am disagreeing with.
YOU used the absurd phrase “Tremblng on the verge of sex,” and YOU are the one who assrted that they would choose the sex pros over a thousand bucks. It is that absurd pair of assertions I am disputing. Again, this is a world you clearly do now know, because anyone who is good enough to be playng at Louisville has been used to getting what they want from the age of 12 or 13. They will certainly take free sex. They will certainly take it from pros. But you are taking it well beyond that to asserting that they are somehow virginal little naifs for whom sex is some sort of holy grail.