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
October 2nd, 2018 at 9:33AM
Honestly, UD, for the sake of your own mental well-being, climb off the Swetnick–McMartin Preschool Crazy Train.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:01AM
tp: Just saw an extended interview with Swetnick and found her not credible.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:20PM
Swetnick is a throw-away, and despite the connection to Katz, simply a pawn of Avenatti’s dog-and-pony show, not Dirty Di’s scheme. Given Swetnick’s difficulties with paying taxes and apparent financial troubles, it would be pointless for anyone to sue her for defamation. Her actual accusations against BK and MJ are so vague and she has changed her story so much that even if she lies to the FBI, prosecution would be a waste of time.
The credible thing. I am confronted all the time by “credible” students with tales of woe who are in fact lying through their teeth. I had an especially good one last spring. How could I accuse her of plagiarism? She had never cheated on anything in her whole life. She swore, tearfully, on the grave of her grandfather! On the soul of her little sister!–this was an international student, BTW–that she would never plagiarize anything. Why, if I had not had on my computer screen a copy of her assignment side-by-side with the one she cut and pasted an entire page verbatim from, written four years earlier, I might have believed her. She agreed that yes, the passage was the same as the other one, and yes, it did not quite fit the assignment. You see, she wasn’t sure how to structure her answer (in real life, the structure of the answer was implicit in the topic itself), so she had borrowed the work of a now graduated student, (the assignment forbade looking at anyone else’s work). She must have had that open in one window while working on her paper and then the computer crashed or something and the whole passage then jumped from his assignment to her assignment as a result of a malfunction or something. Although she carefully proofread the 4-page paper she turned in, she did not notice that a whole extra page of material had been inserted.
No sale.