# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S438
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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438 Report of Board for Higher Education

Shop, etc., will be in demand. If the schools are really to serve:
. Lutheran constituency, their offerings should thoroughly provide
the student who plans to go on to college and in addition. for:
‘much larger group who will enter jobs at the end of high school.
induce boys and girls to. attend our own high school. divisions
then flood them with German, Latin, and Greek to. the exclusion
other more essential subjects is, in our Opinion, an educational di
service. Let no one think that the costs of such expanded progra "1
are trivial or that they can be met by student ‘fees only. ;

General education on the college level is considerably more expe
sive if properly set up to meet the needs of both the terminal and’th
general preprofessional students. The offerings must be sufficient]
diversified to afford virtual duplication of the Programs of the fres

man and sophomore classes of the colleges to which the students late
transfer. Even the terminal stu

ane

student. Two-year course sequences advancing the’ student fros
elementary to higher levels should be supplied.

should be separated in staffs, housing, and classrooms. All along the :
line the standards of the regional accrediting agencies must be fairly
met, and membership in the association must be achieved. .

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Student fees simply cannot be raised to such high levels that they:

will finance this Program. Endowments, or supporting organizations

or synodical suppost are, then, a sine qua non. yey

Several of the schools have introduced general education in the .:
junior college. Every one of them is indirectly receiving synodical
support in the form of added instructors. Where fees are low and
where no active supporting organization exists, we may be certain

that various unsatisfactory devices are employed to reduce the costs’
Among them may be listed:

(a) Unsatisfactory alignment of course sequences through two:
years, that is, too many short half-year courses are thrown to-

gether to provide the necessary graduation credits.

¢ b) Combination of various course levels into one class, especially
in languages, in order to hold down the size of the staff.

(c) Failure to set up specific courses’ to parallel the pretheological:
or teacher-training offerings. The result is either an unsafis-:
factory course for the general student, such as advanced re
ligion, or the loss to the pretheological or teacher-trainin

student of the most suitable type of course, such as surve
science. ‘

If general education on the college level is to be continued, thes
conditions. should be rectified,

become inevitable.

and, in consequence, higher costs wilt