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
February 21st, 2022 at 4:12PM
This is obviously dumb, but I think a lot of instructors do a version of stacking, where you call on a quiet person who doesn’t speak much but raises a hand over other students who speak more often and also want to say something at that moment. It’s just not political stacking.
February 21st, 2022 at 4:12PM
Sorry, I meant this person and her syllabus are dumb. Normal stacking to privilege quiet people is fine.
February 21st, 2022 at 4:24PM
Four or five years ago this practice was commonly discussed among professors, and justified as a way to lift up the thoughts of students who were reluctant to speak (because of discomfort in the classroom based on their identity). So it’s interesting to hear that a college is reacting with fright over a professor’s avowed use of it. My thought at the time was that by calling it progressive stack (as opposed to just calling on the quieter students and tamping down the over-eager ones) these professors were naming themselves as allies of the oppressed. Easily the most oppressed person I had met in college was a white female from a nearly destitute background. She was also (bless her) not afraid to speak up in class. It would have been an insult to her to assume that she needed hand-holding in order to speak.
February 21st, 2022 at 6:03PM
EB, Rita: There’s education, and there’s re-education camp.
All thoughtful instructors try to get a sense of the personalities in their classes over the course of the semester; all do what they can to encourage everyone to have something to say. Madame Mao on the other hand shows up on the first day of class fully equipped with a punishing ideology and with The Truth, and she will write The Truth on her syllabus and she will punish deviationists. Way to encourage people to say something.
Why anyone — anyone — would remain in a classroom featuring that syllabus is beyond me.