# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S497
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Report of Board for Higher Education ; 497 —

HII. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
A. Internal

This is the most effective type of organizati
Ools; it should be maintained in the future.
Until Tecent years the President or
administrative detail in all fields—academic matters, student gZov-
ermment and discipline, financial matters including collections and
purchases, Physical Plant maintenance, meal service supervision,
lationship With. boards, ete,’ The pressure of altered circumstances
arising primarily in. consequence of the expansion into general educa-
tion or of Steatly augmented enrollments’ has resulted in a gradual
elegation - of certain areas of administrative functioning to subordi-

his secretary directly handled

quent change has been the appointment of registrars,
t St. Paul, Minn., Portlan » Oreg., and Edmonton,
4 Canada, as yet have no registrars, the President continuing to
Ssume this function, At Milwaukee, Wis., Oakland, Calif., and
( i + & faculty member, designated either as secretary or
registrar, Performs g few, usually rather unimportant functions asso-
 Ciated with the registrar’s Office. The Fort .Wayne registrar acts in

~ @ somewhat enlarged field. At Austin, Tex., Bronxville, N, Y., and
. Winfield, Kans., registrars are appoi

duties and responsibilities, Since

its. high school and college divisions, a registrar is appointed for each
division, ; :

The foregoing brief analysis ind
‘introduced. general education: have
include registrars. Apparently th

:_ tively to conduct the schools without additional Personnel operating
‘in well-defined areas, .

Correspondingly, the larger instituti
and Milwaukee, Wis., though they have but the one
curriculum, are in need of registrars if

College deans are present at only t

- leges, Winfield, Kans., and Bronxville,
- this officer as the Tegistrar, but he Perf

adean. The latter combines the work of a dean an

ulty members and
and Winfield, Kans,,
ered extensively into

teach regular class’ loads, Bronxville, N. Y,,
alone of the ten Preparatory ‘colleges have ent