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In case you missed this, here’s a fun read on what conservative professors thought were the Top Ten higher education stories of 2013.

With items on the list such as “Hoax Crime Epidemic,” “MOOCs Unchained” and “Woe The Humanities!,” the National Association of Scholars put together a clever, entertaining review. Here’s one from the list:

Hoax Crime Epidemic.  Top honors in this category go to Oberlin College, whose administration knew that a series of racist and homophobic epithets scrawled around campus were the work of some leftist provocateurs but decided to stage a panic anyway.  In response to what turned out to be a phony report of a Ku Klux Klansman on campus, Oberlin cancelled classes on March 4.  The academic world was not short of credulous observers ready to take the evidence of “hate crimes” at face value.  One student activist asked and answered, “Were the Oberlin Hate Crimes Hoaxes? Sure Doesn’t Look Like It.”  The New York Times was on the same page:  “Racist Incidents Stun Campus and Halt Classes at Oberlin.”  Many months went by before an enterprising reporter for the conservative Daily Caller dug out police records showing that the culprits had been identified early on and the Oberlin administration had simply kept mum.  Never let a good crisis go to waste.  Most of the mainstream press has remained silent on this denouement, with the honorable exception of Inside Higher Ed.

Click here to read the full list.

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