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
December 30th, 2019 at 12:01PM
So the contractor, who did the renovations, is a Mass attending catholic, who is sickened by the bishop’s depravity. Nevertheless, he still financially supports an institution he knows is corrupt. None of this nonsense could persist if adults grew up and stopped believing deranged mythology….
December 30th, 2019 at 3:24PM
Isn’t this just the trough that Byrd filled running dry?
https://www.corporations.org/welfare/inquirer5.html
December 31st, 2019 at 10:31AM
Ravi: Wow. Had no idea about that history. But it’s such a familiar story.
December 31st, 2019 at 11:05AM
Technology has been saving education forever and Wheeling has been going out of business just as long. But, once the faculty are fired, the majors reduced, and the mission revectored the brand may still survive – the cat isn’t gone as long as the smile remains. Is this one of those simulacrum/postmodern moments where craft and intrigue save the day?
December 31st, 2019 at 12:55PM
Ravi: I followed one school years ago where vanishingly few students applied – I think it must have been Chicago State… Here’s the post! And I considered just what you’re considering: Can a university that’s basically nothingness continue to function? And my answer was a resounding YES.
December 31st, 2019 at 1:31PM
They can come back as Wheeling Jesuitical University, then.
I’ll show myself out.
December 31st, 2019 at 1:46PM
The late David Noble wrote extensively regarding technology and worker displacement. The phenomena isn’t limited to production/blue collar work. In “Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Rducation,” he chronicled the corporate obsession with replacing professors with computers that delivered the professors own curriculum. In other words, a teacher’s knowledge, research, experience, no longer belonged to the human being, but was usurped by the institution, to be utilized for whatever profitable method available. In essence, the uni becomes a cipher of a school, and instead, becomes a method of profit extraction…
January 1st, 2020 at 2:41PM
Whirling Jesuitical?