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 4th, 2022 at 4:30PM
One of the socially well-connected fundraisers for Wisconsin sports once acknowledged that the easiest money he could raise was to clean out the underachieving football coach and athletic director, this was early in the Donna Shalala era. The current run of bowl games and division titles started shortly thereafter.
That gaudy 67-26 was a gaudier 52-16 two seasons ago. A coach is only as good as his latest recruiting class, or so my sources closer to Madison tell me.
October 5th, 2022 at 2:15PM
Stephen: I had a friend at GW who left a tenured position there for the principled reason that she wanted to teach not at an expensive private school for rich people, but at an affordable public school for everyone else. So off she went to a good state school, but one constantly corrupted by football…
I always wondered if it bothered her at all – this part of the equation – that you left behind privilege and all that, but you took on the ongoing obscenity of football and all it symbolizes in that world.
October 5th, 2022 at 7:35PM
UD: Have you followed up with that friend? The what-came-after might be a good story.
The state flagship unis almost all bundle game day with their academics, even before the Big Ten and Pacific Whatever got into their current SEC envy.
Meanwhile, at Northern Illinois, the scholarship athletes rate nutrition coaches, whilst the run of the neighborhood students have a food pantry that the student affairs information telescreen calls attention to every so often.
October 5th, 2022 at 9:09PM
We fell out of touch, and a few years ago, at only 62 years old, she died of a stroke. What I know from others is that she was very happy with her move, very involved in the local community, much-respected. For all I know the school’s typically icky football program didn’t bother her at all.