# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S482
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482 . Report of Board for Higher Education

\ Future Plans for Pretheological Students

S ; Table 19 ;
CONSTITUENCIES AFTER CLOSING OF INSTITUTIONS .
Recommended Recommended
utput Approximate
Communicants 1/7000 1/6000 Total Enroliment
Milwaukee .......... 250,000 36 42 250 «=. 300
Fort Wayne 215,000 32 38 215 270
Winfleld ... 150,000 21 25 130* 150°
St. Paul .... 140,000 20 23 140 170
Bronxville 000 18 15 95 110
Oakland .... 82,000 5 33 40
Edmonton 19,000 3 8 20 25
906,000 : 130 150 893 1065
bd Austin sesesaeeeneweees 25 30

The seven remaining junior colleges might be expected to supply, :
candidates for St. Louis in numbers proportionate to their coristitu:
encies. The Board for Higher Education could designate the tota
freshmen desired for St. Louis, e. g.. 130 or 150. If the former, ond
candidate would need to be supplied by each college for every 7,006
communicants in the school’s constituency; if the latter, one for:
every 6,000. The second column of Table 19 shows the desire
school output under these conditions. While rigid regulation wo

perhaps be undesirable, it would be of value to set up the- idea
. toward which we should strive. ‘

The last column of the table shows the approximate total enroll;
-meénts required at each institution to supply the desired output: ‘T°
larger number is based on past loss ratios, the smaller on the b
of anticipated reduction of losses. “

Three of the institutions, Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis.;
Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Concordia College, St. Paul!
Minn., would have sufficiently large enrollments to provide low per-it@
capita costs. The remaining four and Austin would also enroll noi
theological students and thus reduce: these costs. :

Publicity for pretheological students in each-area would be guide
by the size of each institution’s pretheological enrollment. One are
might be vigorously campaigning for. students, another directing su
plus applicants to a sister institution. Under such conditions of?
stabilized enrollments, more adequate planning of faciljties is possible’

for local Boards and for Synod.

Better controls of the size of Seminary entering classes are sup
plied. The Seminary also would be in a better position to. estimat
its needs in plant facilities and teaching staffs for longer periods
time, . : :

This method would provide Synod with candidates from all section
of ‘the country reasonably proportionate to its constituency. Th
costs of educating pastors would be equitably distributed, and tt
various economic and: social backgrounds of a class of candidate
would be more representative of Synod’s total constituency.