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
August 15th, 2017 at 1:51PM
gods (and suburban moms) willing soon football will be like smoking, boxing and the military in terms of demographics:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/08/15/concussions-kids-and-contact-sports
August 16th, 2017 at 2:52PM
dmf, thanks for the link. An argument can be made that played at an early age, football can be a form of child abuse. But the game is premised on the recruitment and development of very young players. Promising grade school athletes are discovered during Pop Warner. They are funneled to particular high school football programs which refine that talent. Those hs teams then become feeders for the Power 5 college football teams, from which the bulk of pro players are drafted.
One of the best examples of all that is Long Beach Poly High in Socal. Both the NFL and NBA have greatly benefited from that one high school. That’s exactly the point, everyone gets what they want from that process. But if that mechanism is even slightly altered, the pipeline breaks down. Get rid of Pop Warner football, you can no longer identify the boys who have athletic talent and high pain tolerance. Limit the amount of high school football, you cannot develop and evaluate players during game time. Have far fewer college games and practices with tackling that takes players to the ground, NFL teams will need to spend a lot of money in player development. Those that make huge profits from the labor of the players cannot and won’t tolerate any disruption of the cycle. The death of the game can only come, as you say, when moms decide their son’s health transcends the game….
August 16th, 2017 at 8:45PM
tragically whatever way the burbs go they will continue to be able to prey on the poor/desperate (see the Nike camps and all) but that’s capitalism for ya…
August 16th, 2017 at 9:40PM
dmf, when you get a chance, research IMG Academy. I’ll just leave it at that….
August 17th, 2017 at 4:56PM
“sports training destination” yeah that’s unfortunate but families who can afford 40-50k/yr aren’t as vulnerable as the kids caught up by Nike and all (including as UD reminds us college scouts/coaches).
Reminds me to check in on the college programs turning out the athletic trainers who keep claiming they can diagnose and successfully treat concussions.