# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S488
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

488 Report of Board for Higher Education

Synod would adopt this type of organization, it would not per
provide all that Synod would require. This is, however, ano
valid reason for Synod to approach this problem with great cau

a shorter and more compact period of study. It is well known tha’
the four-year liberal arts training, though formerly required for ent
on professional studies, has with the passin
highly specialized in its final year.
So definitely professionalized that it serves as a base for credits b
for the liberal arts degree and the professional degree.

In addition, there has béen a strong trend for some years ‘¢
professionalize also the third year of the liberal arts college. Increa
emphasis has been given this development by the University
Chicago and an allied group of institutions.
erally do not follow the University of Chicago’s
the Bachelor’s degree at the end of the first two
the cleavage between the junior division (freshman and sophom
and the senior division (junior and ‘senior) is gly
Pronounced in American colleges. The growth of the junior college
movement, particularly in the past twenty years, (see table), hi
given a powerful stimulus to this ‘development. A definite trend
toward completion of general education at the junior college leve
noticeable in the theological schools themselves, .

This entire development in American education, so recent that
full implications have not yet reached the general public, may be
utmost importance to Synod’s entire educational system.

It can be said without fear of contradiction that our Lutheran;
Church has pioneered in the development of the junior college. Fors

formerly considered a four-year colle
requisite for entry into professional schools. With the increase * i
educational efficiency on both the elementary and high school level;
educators have come to Tealize that it is possible to lay an adequ ite.
foundation for professional work on the basis of a junior college*

education. In other words, American Professional education in

general is moving toward the adoption of a pattern similar to_our,
historic Lutheran organization.