Louisiana College Bans 2 Textbooks, Changes Book Selection Policy
This subscriber-restricted article in The Chronicle of Higher Education describes changes at the Baptist institution Louisiana College. A student and a board member complained that language in M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled and a love scene in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines did not reflect the Christian values of the college. The president ordered the books removed from the campus bookstore. The Board of Trustees now requires department heads and the vice president for academic affairs to approve all books used in courses, beginning this spring. Professors say the change hampers academic freedom.
The article does not mention how this change might effect the library.
