# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S507
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506 Report of Board for Higher Education

College may advance instructors to regular profess¢
ships. This action carries with it

a. Security of tenure in office under the same co!
ditions now applicable to professors.

b. The title “professor”.

c. Increase in salary.

d. The power to vote in faculty meetings.

It should be noted that the divinity of the call is not an <
issue in this matter. The divinity of a call is not coi :
ditioned by time limits. A call may be accepted as "
divine whether it be for a determinate or indetermi-.:
nate period of time.

The system would become effective more rapidly if ,it’
were applied to all teachers now at the institutions.
To demand this does not appear wise. Hence it must:
be made applicable only for future appointments..
Prolonged though the process of change will be, th
introduction of this system is a step in the direction of :
progress.

11,. That the policy of uniform salary scales for all institutions, irre-3*
spective of location, be discontinued and that the salary scales be
modified on the. basis of living cost indices so as to provid
higher salaries for teachers in high cost areas (River Forest
Oakland, Bronxville, Portland); or that three salary scales ‘b
introduced, as indicated in the report above.

12a.That the differential between faculty salaries and presidents’;

Salaries be accentuated by means of an increase in the salarie
of the latter.

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12b. That salary scales of Tegistrars and dean-registrars at the large
institutions, who find it necessary to give a large portion of thei:
summer to administrative work, be increased above the level:
of the regular professors. “s

' 13. That the policy of subsidizing the professors by grants in. aid
for university study be completely eliminated also in the case
of newly called professors if a system of ranking the faculty

members, providing gradual salary increases, is adopted. £Se

recommendation No, 10.) ;

14. That a system of sabbatical leaves upon the completion of ‘ten
years of teaching be introduced, as detailed under SectionV

Instruction,