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
July 13th, 2009 at 5:08PM
While the student deserves an apology because faculty are supposed to have control over their tempers, the student’s point is absurd (at least according to the article you linked to). Diversity is about issues which are not subject to the control of the person, e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Complaining about not enough Republicans on the faculty is ridiculous. If he polled faculty about religious affiliation I’m sure there would be very few Satanists. Is that an issue as well? The student needs to grow up and live in the real world, a world where sometimes one is in the extreme minority and stop whining about it.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:58PM
Uff. That kind of behavior is completely unwarranted. If the professor was that upset, they could have just excused themselves; or, perhaps engaged in the discussion. Without swearing or yelling. Manners, people! Joe – I’d agree with you, except according to the story linked to, "political affiliation" is explicitly included in the University’s diversity programming.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:32PM
I’ll bet there are more Satanists than Republicans.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:40AM
Is there a difference?
July 14th, 2009 at 1:33PM
Of course, there is the strong possibility that the story is some sort of embellishment (mild or extreme) of what really happened. For example, *IF* the author really is a spotlight-loving O’Reilly wannabe, then embellishment is extremely likely.
In any event, I don’t see what’s so scandalous: A university instructor of some sort (adjunct, grad student?) curses out a student (who is not *her* student) because of a disagreement over politics. Certainly, that is bad manners and bad behavior, but a scandal or a blot on the academy? Hardly. There are a lot of hotheaded professors just like there are a lot of hotheaded people.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:24PM
At some point during the election I wandered onto a conservative blog haranguing the liberal university for teaching slavery as all the fault of the white man. Except, that the "hidden story they aren’t telling you!" was the same story of slavery I teach in world history, and the same story I have ever heard any historian offer.
Last spring, I assigned a book on globalization that was quite anti-globalization. We spent a lot of time not just poking holes in his argument, but breaking down the techniques of propagandistic writing.
I am a kneejerk liberal who will passionately defend my tendency to vote by party.
Which is to say—without further evidence, this story is a one-off incident between two individuals. Yes, the student deserves an apology. But I don’t think a good journalist should try to present this as damning evidence. And the original piece, on voter registration—somewhat more relevant, catchily presented, but basically a hackneyed revisit of an old sound bite, not even contextualized with any discussion of overall voter registration in Oregon (blue state called for Obama 30 secs after polls closed in West) or Eugene (notoriously liberal hippie town), or among university students, or any rationale for the depts he picked to study.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:16PM
The Satanists share with the Left the feature of having an overriding goal. The Satanists want your body and soul. The Left wants your freedom and your money, not necessarily in that order.
The Republicans have no clue about what the hell they want most of the time.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:49PM
There is far more ideological diversity among faculty in the hard sciences and engineering simply because they are not selected for their politics. This is not true in the soft sciences and liberal arts. It is cultural evolution at work–selective pressure yields allele changes in the population under the stress.
theprofessor: Ssssshhhhhh. We had them confused.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:36AM
There is far more ideological diversity among faculty in the hard sciences and engineering simply because they are not selected for their politics. This is not true in the soft sciences and liberal arts.
Um, no, it’s not true in the liberal arts or social sciences. What kind of crazy hiring committees have you been on? Seriously, the only department I know of at most universities that is ideologically rigid is the Economics department, where free-market absolutism is taken as a given, and is never subject to examination of any kind, either in scholarship or in teaching.