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
December 12th, 2017 at 1:19PM
so Lane Kiffin has a place to coach…
December 12th, 2017 at 1:34PM
John: yes: a marriage made in heaven.
December 13th, 2017 at 7:57AM
While I completely agree with the outcome of the trial, the reality of the case is very different. Of course the university actually fired him because of his actions against the victims of the shootings. Tenure rules being what they are however made it impossible to fire him for that. Academic freedom demanded that he prove the shooting was all a hoax. Paper work not filed is a fireable offense. This is very similar to the firing of the Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard (some one I knew and respected). He was caught with a hard drive full of porn (legal porn adult women). The president of Harvard decided it was unseemly to have a Divinity School dean with a porn addiction. So he removed him for misuse of a university owned computer. As Alan Dershowitz pointed out they would not have fired him if he had been caught playing solitaire for hours on the computer. In his case, however, he was not removed from his professorship just no longer dean.
December 13th, 2017 at 10:03AM
Bruce: Yes. Recall the similar case of Ward Churchill. Of course the university fired him because of his disgusting post-9/11 comments; but they had to find something else (in his case, plagiarism) in order to get rid of him. I agree these cases make a free speech advocate uneasy. It would be more honest, in cases of faculty moral degenerates, to try using the ‘moral turpitude’ clause. But basically I have no sympathy for most of the schools who find themselves in these quandaries: mindless political correctness hires, or just absolute indifference to who they scoop up off the street to teach courses (I suspect this was the case at FAU – they even tenured the dude), is often to blame.
As to the Harvard dean – how dumb to put it on your university computer!! For that alone he deserved at least a demotion to altar boy.
December 13th, 2017 at 2:44PM
James Tracy may, or may not, be a vile human being. But I’ve yet to read anything that claims he phonied up research. He was fired because he was a jerk. Which brings up the curious case of Pamela Ronald, a Ph.d geneticist at UC Davis. She’s long been a proponent of GMO plants and crops. Where she’s analogous with Jim is that she’s been a complete jackhole toward her opponents, including fellow scientists. Unlike James Tracy, she was given a public platform to spew, imo, vulgarities that rival whatever it is Tracy stated.
But there’s a problem for ol’ Pammy. See, she’s had three of her scientific papers retracted, due to, ahem, poor research techniques. The woman did it three times, and when confronted with initially with her fraud, she stayed in Pam Mode and attacked the other scientists, European, if memory serves, for their supposedly poor research. Only after repeated attempts for her to clarify the anomalies did she finally retract her work. Again, not once, but three times.
One can bring up the question of how did peer review so badly fail, but leaving that aside, James Tracy got fired for being a jerk. Pamela Ronald has been a jerk and a lousy scientist. One is no longer employed, the other still has her lab. Uh huh…..
December 13th, 2017 at 5:26PM
I was at a meeting of the Texas Council of Faculty senates once, and they had a lawyer-type get up and tell us how they always will get ya: Forms. In this case, his example was travel forms. If they want you, and if your work is at least good enough to have gotten through Post Tenure Review, or your issue is having been controversial, or mouthed off to an administrator, here is what they do: They go through your travel forms. Because there is always something wrong in the travel forms, and it’s as easy to imply malicious intent as to imply an honest error.
In all honesty, that’s not at all reassuring.
December 13th, 2017 at 5:54PM
dcat: There’s something very Yes Minister about it all… Sir Humphrey Appleby lives…
December 15th, 2017 at 6:14PM
God, I love Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister.
December 15th, 2017 at 8:08PM
dcat: There was a time when our lives revolved around it…