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
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:27PM
Just out of curiosity, does Liberty University have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status? If so, it seems like it could potentially run into trouble for allowing one political party but not another.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:56PM
Good question. Maybe another reader knows.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:39PM
They do.
Last fall, Liberty refused to allow people to park in their parking lot when Barack Obama came to speak in Lynchburg because they were afraid that would conflict with their nonprofit status. (http://tinyurl.com/5hkmfu)
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:40PM
And c’mon, Snowflex never tried to tear this country apart with dissenting opinions!
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:17PM
Kate: LOL.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:55PM
"students could face expulsion after accumulated reprimands."
I read this as: "Don’t make us do you a favor."
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:10AM
They are such amateurs at Liberty. These poor, dumb, honest fundies use a chainsaw when a little dry-rot fungus would work just as well. Really, every liberal administrator worth his hopium knows how to handle groups with unwelcome beliefs:
1) Sure, we have a space for your group, kids–yeah, OK, it was a broom closet, but what did you expect?–an office suite in the Center for Leadership and Leisure Studies? Sorry about the leaky ceiling and asbestos, by the way.
2) Ensure that any publications mysteriously vanish within ten minutes of being set out.
3) If they dare to bring in an outside speaker, let opposition thuglets break up the meeting. Then, forbid future speakers on safety grounds.
4) Take some disciplinary actions against the leadership–any grounds will do, but ones using the speech code (you have one, right?) are especially delicious.