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
January 28th, 2009 at 8:15PM
To be fair, to compare the French and British systems by number of publications isn’t all that useful. British scholars churn out pages because that’s how higher education pounds are allocated, on the basis of quantity rather than quality. I’m not saying that the Brits aren’t better, but "fewer publications" is hardly a good measure of anything with the RAE as the measure of "scientific production." The bureaucratic BS that French academics put up with, however, is mindboggling!
January 28th, 2009 at 8:37PM
All good points, Ellie.
March 15th, 2009 at 10:29AM
Sarkozy’s reforms are also an erosion of tenure. Mandatory evaluations of faculty performance is the first stage towards blackballing lecturers and researchers who don’t make the grade on their work or their politics. This proposed fishing expedition is perhaps as dangerous to French university life as the move to less autonomy, in the guise of more autonomy. This other aspect of the LRU legislation would be the first stage of a corporate merger with big business.
So you’re right, Margaret. The French have taken to the streets since February 5th. Continuing massive protests by faculty and students in many cities in France, go on still with about 40 out of 80 universities shut down.
For an update see my article: "Sarkozy’s French University Reforms Crash And Burn" online in NewsHammerOnCampus.
April 16th, 2010 at 7:11AM
Perhaps my professor colleague could publish more if they were not kept busy by large teaching time and even larger administrative duties. American professors seem to have lots of capable staff for running the place; in French universities, professors tend to have to see to things themselves if they want things done. The administration, in theory supporting teaching and research, often seems to spend its time enforcing unwieldy regulations invented from above.
Nothing in the proposed changes of Sarkozy would change anything to the above facts of current French academic life, as far as I know.