# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S439
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ntended by the foregoing to imply that the costs are pro-
We do wish to point out that the ‘prevailing opinion gen-
estimates the costs of a program of general education.

onsidered.

is contributing indirectly, but quite substantially, to the

et cost” notwithstanding. Synod does so in the following

Edmonton, receives his education without paying tuition fees.

Tuition fees charged the general.student at our other colleges,
_ customarily $20.00 per semester in high school and $30.00. and
$40.00 per semester in college, are below the actual cost of the
education provided.

‘Some of the institutions have been remarkably generous in
their classification of students as pretheological. Many a young
man has thus acquired an education without paying tuition.

; Widespread laxity of the schools—with several ‘notable excep-
tions—both in assessing tuition arrears against students who
for no satisfactory reason discontinued the pretheological course
and in “follow-up” of these unpaid tuition accounts. Uncok
». leeted tuition arrears from pretheological students who discon-
: tinued their studies during the year 1940-41 at the preparatory
. schools, exclusive of losses of grants in aid by indigent student
.. boards, amounted to approximately $15,000.00.. The sum is
.- much greater if we include students at the seminaries and
norma! schools.

*.§, At institutions having general education Synod maintains larger
‘ staffs than are required for the theological students enrolled.

crediting associations is generally fifteen in colleges, consider-
ably larger in high schools. Synod maintains one instructor for
4-8 pretheological students at the five schools having general
education. The highest number during. 1942-43 was eight min-
isterial students per professor at the schools open to general
education. This results in relatively high costs.

Tuition fees remitted to Synod do not cover the teaching costs of
:the general student at these institutions. Some allowance should be
made for the fact that’ enrollments currently are below normal. Of
‘course, Synod must maintain! its. staffs of regular professors during
periods of lew enrollment. :

Report ‘of Board for Higher Education _ “4390

steps are indeed easy to take, but the eventual costs should _

s- connection it is opportune to point out that Synod, in sev-—

: program of general eduéation, its stipulation “without addi-.

- Since 1938 the non-theological student at Concordia College, .

The average number of students per instructor favored by ac-