One of wee UD’s folk song idols.
One of wee UD’s folk song idols.
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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 31st, 2023 at 10:29PM
Margaret Noodin, Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Despite admitting she does not have documentation of an Indigenous ancestor, she said she grew up believing she was Indigenous because of what her family told her.” The article is from Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel, and there’s something called a “blood quantum” involved in establishing indigeneity.
October 31st, 2023 at 10:40PM
Stephen: So many pretendians say some version of this, which is simply an admission of bald-faced delusion. At best. Given the immense benefits (esp. in Canada) of being taken for indigenous, calculated self-aggrandizement seems more likely the cause.
November 1st, 2023 at 10:51AM
UD: Does the notion of “authenticity” encourage such delusions? Buffy might have thought her songs had more purchase if her audience believed she was singing about her ancestors. With Margaret Noodin, there might have been a baser motive, ticking a diversity box is a plus for hiring and promotion. The story is not out of a state flagship or an Ivy, otherwise it’s likely the Pajamas Media sorts would already be all over it.
From there, things get more complicated. One of Noodin’s students, with a clearer native genealogy, claimed he wouldn’t have taken her language course had he known she was, to be crude, white. Does that change the reality that she’s devoted a career to researching and conserving what would likely otherwise be a lost language?
So, too, with “calculated self-aggrandizement.” Ever since Roots, genealogy has become a pastime for people who aren’t Mayflower descendants (oh, hi.) Combine that with a change in the way the Census classifies ethnicities, and you get what looks like an increase in pretendians. That might be where the “blood quantum” comes in. My source for that Census assertion is a recent Washington Post article that New England Ancestors brought to my attention in their weekly newsletter.
Enjoy the beach. The Festive Season music rotation is upon us.
November 2nd, 2023 at 10:48AM
Stephen: Although grandiose self-delusion no doubt plays a role, I’m convinced (having followed the subject) that it’s 90% cynical self-advancement. I doubt attraction to a more “authentic” identity plays much of a role at all.