# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S452
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452: , Report of Board for Higher Education

Table 8

COMMUNICANT. CONSTITUENCIES OF JUNIOR COLLEGES
GEOGRAPHICAL AND DISTRICT BASIS
STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 1940

; Communicant
Location Stations

Members 7
Milwaukee, Wisconsin . 690 221,578
‘Fort Wayne, Indiana....: 578 179,103
St. Paul, Minnesota. 866 139,874
Concordia, Missouri §81* 130,537*
Bronxville, New York 3 87,318
Winfield, Kangas ..... 432 59,654
Austin, Texas .......... 205 30,418 oN,
Austin and Winfield combined 1 637 90,072 .
Oakland, California as . 155 18,675 ‘
Edmonton, Canada .. - 481 19,159
Portland, Oregon ww 144 12,384
TOCA neeeessecceepssesesessseseceeessseneneessssesteecssseeesceseess 4,528 898,700

*Effective constituency : ca. 65, communicants
ca. 300 stations

A careful scrutiny of the table Presents some very significa
differences among the constituencies of our various schools;
Especially in terms of effective constituency it is very clear that:
some institutions serve a much greater part of Synod than others, ’
The first and obvious conclusion from these statistics is that if Synod:
desires to abandon the physical plants of any institutions, thos
which have the smallest constituencies would naturally be considere:
first. Only the introduction of other factors, such as location in the:
peripheral areas, would diminish the force of the argument to b
drawn froma relatively weak constituency, :

_The overlapping of the constituencies also constitutes an unneces-: :
sary and undesirable duplication of educational effort. Here, too, 3%
the principle of good stewardship applies, i
; Summary

This section of our report has presented in some detail the curren
. Status of our preparatory schools and the recent history of the suppl
and: demand for theological candidates. In addition we have

cally with a smaller number of institutions. :

It has also been our purpose to demonstrate that the cost of a
large number of small schools is unusually high, that their academic
standing is often endangered because of lack of equipment and
facilities, and that their contribution to the Districts in which they

are located has not always been as great as would .appear on. the
surface. -

Finally,

it has been’ our endeavor to ‘demonstrate that there is a