Literary critics James Sitar and William Logan have both scrutinized the first published edition of poet Robert Frost's personal journals, "The Notebooks of Robert Frost," according to The New York Times. Frost is a member of the Class of 1896. The critics commented on typographical and contextual errors and omissions in the compilation, edited by Robert Faggen, chair of the English department at Claremont McKenna College. Logan, an English professor at the University of Florida, said he found significant errors in an investigation of Frost's original notebooks found in Dartmouth's archives. Sitar, the archive editor of poetryfoundation.org, said he found the published edition contained "roughly one thousand" mistakes after a similar investigation at Boston University. Faggen defended his compilation, telling the Times, "My practices are in harmony with those of most other editors of Frost's manuscripts: I let his misspellings stand. This is not an error."
Educators and organizations from around the world unveiled the Cape Town Open Education Declaration on Tuesday, according to Inside Higher Ed. The declaration, designed to persuade universities to increase the number of free, online courses and educational material, is the product of a 2007 meeting of organizers in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss issues of open educational access. Specifically, the Cape Town declaration aims to increase student and educator participation in the "open education movement" by using and improving free online educational resources; to increase educator, author and publisher releases of free online resources; and to urge colleges, universities, governments and school boards to make open education a priority. The declaration complements several ongoing projects at universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare and Rice University's Connexions, which make materials available online. The CTOED comes in the wake of 2002's Budapest Open Access Initiative which aimed at increasing online research publications and called for an end to online subscriptions for scholars.
