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
January 12th, 2018 at 9:53AM
When I first saw it, I thought “obsessive absences” was a malapropism coined by this individual, but when you do an online search, you’ll find that it is a disturbingly common usage. Yikes!
January 12th, 2018 at 9:53AM
Obsessive absences? Interesting turn of phrase….
January 12th, 2018 at 10:12AM
“Stunt attendance”, on the other hand, is an interesting concept, although I’m not sure where to go with it.
January 12th, 2018 at 10:34AM
Columbia was nailed about a decade ago for grifting students via the financial aid department. They paid a fine, but no arrests. The school still engages in the long con, they bust a few admins, but why in hell is anyone attending a joint that sees its students as marks?
January 13th, 2018 at 6:35PM
i have trouble seeing these students as victims here
January 14th, 2018 at 12:05AM
Students are victims to the extent that pigeon drop marks are victims. Grifters play on the greed, ignorance and gullibility of people. Doesn’t mean that a grifter ain’t a con, and it doesn’t mean unis ain’t conning their students…,
January 14th, 2018 at 9:00AM
universities may well be “cons” at various levels. this isn’t an example of such.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:29PM
Wrong. Why, after payin a million dollar fine for earlier corruption, did Columbia still have grifters in their financial aid department receiving kickbacks? Prior FA admins were also greased for student loan malfeasance. Don’t know about you, but it’s apparent a pattern of behavior has emerged.
And, as always, whatever fallout comes from all this, students will end up paying for this daisy chain of joy. But you have to give CU credit, they stick to their business model…,
January 15th, 2018 at 3:31PM
seeing the students, who took many thousands of dollars illicitly in this case, as victims here is more than slightly strange.