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 2nd, 2019 at 6:00PM
If it is “experiential experience” that matters, shouldn’t the fans be on the field? Or the sex acts be in the bleachers?
January 2nd, 2019 at 8:19PM
gasstation…: I guess I’ve been assuming, what with all the booze and boredom, that the sex acts are already in the bleachers.
January 3rd, 2019 at 3:01AM
Fifth Third Bank Stadium?
Sounds like the nice folk at Kennesaw State have already sold their souls.
Soul searching at schools here in Texas?
Let’s start with overpriced tickets, followed by overpriced, virtually inaccessible parking, followed by overpriced concessions. Let’s mix that with being tortured by security thugs at the gate and by insufficient restroom facilities inside. Then we look up into the luxury boxes where our elitist betters are watching the game from the best seats in the house — all of which are inaccessible to us peons. Add in annoying commercials on the annoying godzillatrons at volumes that are louder than jet flyovers. Games are played to satisfy the television gods, not the fans in the stadium. I wonder why the fans watch the games on television instead of from the stands?
Are the elites who run university athletic programs really so stupid that they can’t figure this out? Maybe if we pay them more they will? Maybe if we pay a few million more to the coach we just fired, everything will be fine?
I’m feeling it! Shout Halleluiah!
January 3rd, 2019 at 11:39AM
are there non-experiential experiences?
January 3rd, 2019 at 1:23PM
JND, keep in mind students, in many cases, have to pay for their tickets. It’s not enough that they’re going into debt for tens of thousands of dollars. The debt load for the athletic buildouts demand that students pay extra to attend games, despite increasing tuition. The millionaire coaches, boosters and admis are analogous to English landlords demanding higher rents from their Irish tenants….
January 7th, 2019 at 9:27AM
Obviously the VP of Experiential Experiences has drunk deeply of the Kool Aidministratium and is headed for big things.