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
June 14th, 2019 at 1:34AM
Isn’t the job of a liberals arts education the creation of people capable of assessing the quality of evidence and proof of arguments? Surveillance cameras caught the students in a lie, but I guess at Oberlin, who you gonna believe? Cliches or your lying eyes??
June 14th, 2019 at 9:47AM
The students went ahead and confessed. It’s the administrators who refuse to see the light.
June 14th, 2019 at 10:32AM
The world of student affairs, especially at small liberal arts colleges, attracts many individuals who come from the activist tradition. Students see them as allies who advocate for them with the administration. Nothing wrong with that. The problems arise when student affairs administrators start to crave the affirmation of the students and cross the boundary from being advocates to being promoters and motivators of sophomoric woke-ness. That’s when you get situations like this. I hope other schools are watching this story.
June 14th, 2019 at 12:46PM
It would probably be a good idea for Oberlin’s administration to decree a military-style “stand-down” for a day and have a come-to-Jesus/YWH/Allah/Buddha/Gaia/etc. revival meeting about institutional liability, professional behavior, and such.
Even then, some people don’t get it or can’t follow directions. My place had to pay out in a harassment case partly because the vp-let in charge pretty much ignored the whole set of procedures carefully laid out in the manual until it was too late.
June 14th, 2019 at 2:51PM
Polish Peter:”crave the affirmation of students” says it. These people are the functional equivalent of sports-mad administrators who crave the affirmation of the football players.
June 14th, 2019 at 5:11PM
I think you’re on to something, UD. There really does seem to be a functional parallel between the sports-mad administrators and the administrative cheerleaders for woke-ness.
June 14th, 2019 at 8:38PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/opinion/liberal-college-administrators.html
don’t think “liberal” is any longer the right word for what’s described here.