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 21st, 2018 at 10:02AM
Honest to God. A college tight end coach making $600K? They can’t have more than 4-5 players at that position.
August 21st, 2018 at 10:20AM
Ding ding ding! theprofessor has it right. Six tight ends listed on the 2018 roster. Now contrast that with the rhetoric politicians love to aim at (usually apocryphal) professors earning 175 grand a year or so and only teaching a handful of students. And keep in mind the mission of an institution. And keep in mind that tiny teaching loads, especially at public R1’s, often are the result of external grants and NOT public monies. And keep in mind (that whole “apocryphal” thing) that unlike Dr. Strawman conjured up in the mind of some politician we have a concrete example of a coach with six athletes directly under him, in a program that loses money, earning assloads of cash.
And keep in mind also that U of L athletics loses money overall, and I am willing to stake all the money in my pocket — admittedly less than the coach’s monthly car allowance by a long way — that a massive hunk of that money loss comes in the vortex of super-expensive football, especially at a school where basketball is by far the biggest driver. In 2015 and 2016 the academic side of U of L had to subsidize athletics to the tune of 4+ million a year. That’s a lot of $175,000-a-year professors.
August 21st, 2018 at 12:56PM
Well said, dcat. UD
August 24th, 2018 at 9:18AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/sports/urban-meyer-zach-smith-ohio-state.html