# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S500
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administrative ability; the capable m
numerous extra-teaching assignments;
teachers should be devoted to teaching. }
teaching. It would: be far better to concentrate a group of related
administrative duties in one or several responsible individuals.
An initial step in this direction would be the appointment at all
. institutions of a faculty member as registrar. To him should
assigned a very specific area of work,

4, Recommendations

We further recommend that each s
the Board for Higher Education and wi
necessary deans, registrars,
cated by the specific needs of each institution. The duties of these

‘administrative officials shall be the same as in all American institu-
tions of similar size and organization, ;

ACTION OF SYNOD
The recommendations under Sections 2, 3, and 4 were adopted. .

B. External

1. Functions of Boards of Control .

The external administration of Synod’s schools is vested in the loca
Boards of Control, Synod’s Board of Directors, and more recently, i
part, in the Board for Higher Education. Since the functions of th
Boards of Control and their relationship to the Board for Higher
Education and the Board of Dirctors is under study by the Committee
on Revision of the Handbook, this area of institutional administra
tion was not given particular attention under the survey, ;

It is obivous that the probl
plex during this world war,
provided this central agency to cope with them. The ‘investigations:
under the_ survey have made it clear, on the one hand, that no rea
solution exists for many problems; on the Other, that numerous proy
cedures Proposed, if adopted, will require a-period of years for ‘th
effective establishment. The Problems, furthe