# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S502
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Report of Board for Higher Education ‘ 503 °
B. ‘Teaching Fields and Teaching Loads

hing loads (hours per week devoted. to instruction) of the -
ty members’ in the ten preparatory schools, as measured by a
friuand reasonable scientific unit of measure, ranges from a low of
ours. per week to a high of 36 hours per week. The average
aity. load in individual schools varies from 21 hours per week
tin) to 33 (Edmonton). The accepted average is 25 hours per
ek. Austin, Fort Wayne, and St. Paul are below this. The
dents of Austin and Edmonton are significantly overburdened

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ith teaching duties.

C. Faculty Functioning
Most schools hold fairly regular faculty meetings. It is observed,
ever, that in many instances much time is wasted in faculty meet-
through ineffective discussions of routine matters. Such meet-
s unquestionably should be devoted to matters of. policy and ‘to
t cussions of important academic problems, while the execution and
pplication of policies should be left to administrative officers. ,

It should be said with emphasis that our faculties, as a group, are
lost sincere, energetic, unselfish, and devoted to their work of service
‘the Savior. Nevertheless, because they are human beings, called
‘0 positions offering life tenure, they could, we are convinced, benefit
y the incentive of a definite reward for self-improvement, increased

iching effectiveness, and other academic accomplishments. Such a
eward is regularly provided in American colleges by means of
dvancement in academic rank and tenure. Fairness to them and

be made not necessarily for life, but provisionally, until competence
‘and adjustment are mutually disclosed'in actual experience.

D. Faculty Salaries

‘: “The salaries of married professors range from $1,800 to $2,100
per year, depending on length of service and size of family. Synod
also supplies housing but not fuel and light. The salary scale is above
subsistence levels, but is much lower. than that observed in institu-
tions of other church bodies. More important, unless a professor has
supplementary income, investigation. reveals that he often is unable

~fessors alike. However, because the cost of living varies  sub-
’. stantially in different localities, a program of uniform salaries actually
discriminates heavily against those professors who must live in high

‘cost communities. Careful study of comparative costs of living in
those communities where our colleges are located, discloses that these

‘to. Synod’ suggests that the highly important call to a professorship -

to maintain a reasonable standard of living. In the interest of undis-
criminatory. fairness, Synod has followed a policy of paying all pro-|

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