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
September 15th, 2017 at 8:37AM
Wow, just wow. He doesn’t trust real universities but he trusts diploma mills.
September 15th, 2017 at 11:32AM
I’m going to guess he’s also the type that bemoans giving kids trophies/medals/etc for participation and not for winning.
September 15th, 2017 at 1:49PM
Wizard of Oz…
September 15th, 2017 at 10:22PM
the truth is the lines are getting mighty blurry
https://events.uiowa.edu/event/suit_up
September 17th, 2017 at 4:20PM
Oh, if you are at a state university these days, believe me, you are hearing all sorts of palaver about finding ways to validate peoples’ experiences to get them credits to get them degrees. It is insane, reveals an utter ignorance about what higher education and degrees are supposed to represent, but when dealing with the political classes, the ignorance is a feature, not a glitch.
September 17th, 2017 at 8:04PM
dcat: Yup.
September 18th, 2017 at 9:51AM
Do not believe that state universities have a monopoly on bogosity, dcat. Our failed administration is frantically trying to develop on-line “degrees” that even Mrs. TP’s dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks dog pack could complete summa cum barke. “Life credit” given for not pooping indoors more than once a week, mauling rabbits and other small rodents in the backyard, etc.
September 18th, 2017 at 10:44AM
tp: credit for having in the past not pooped indoors although you can’t document it