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
November 2nd, 2017 at 8:00AM
Among the other articles linked to the one posted is one that states, “Duke Preps 500 Bed Dorm On West Campus.” Odd way to put it. That wording is reserved for prisons and state mental hospitals….
November 2nd, 2017 at 7:08PM
Haven’t checked in for a few months. Still at it, eh, UD? Well, good. Those of us who’ve been shocked beyond belief–like me– by the irregular conduct at universities need insider help like yours to make sure we’re not seeing things.
charlie, good to see you’re at it, too.
November 2nd, 2017 at 9:57PM
Hey Jackson, was wondering where you had gone! We need your Mid East perspective……
November 3rd, 2017 at 7:14AM
charlie, the higher ed party never ends here in the “Mid East”. (I had to process that “Mid East” for a micro-second. LOL.)
Two, three weeks ago a developer was indicted on 100+ counts of money laundering, etc. in a scheme that channeled city water department revenues into upmarket housing. Further indictments of city officials in this reverse Robin Hood scheme are expected. Developer’s projects include at least one university dorm. Yesterday the developer, out on bond, had a meeting with the university’s VP of finance. University legal exposure is as yet unknown. I wouldn’t rely on the trustees to have the gall to ask if the university has any legal exposure.
Hey, it don’ get any better! Thanks a lot, bud.
November 3rd, 2017 at 4:58PM
Well Jack, nice to know some things just don’t change at Podunk U…..
November 4th, 2017 at 7:39AM
charlie, we need a higher ed stink-o-meter, buddy, with the analog dial and positions marked green, yellow, and red.
Green would include minor grade inflation, faculty-student affairs that are sorta consensual, and the occasional minimally qualified relative who gets a no-interview job where he does a little work and mostly stays out of the way.
Red would be Jerry Sandusky, solicitations of bribes for full-time jobs, bribery, extortion, maybe with an audible, “Warning, warning! Danger, danger!”
LOL. My eyeballs are still popping out of my head at the dubious stuff that’s shielded from public scrutiny by “higher education”.
Morning coffee’s kicking in. Am still wondering whether the Feds keep an informal list of schools targeted for RICO prosecution.