# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S538
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Report of Board for Higher Education, , 539

X. ACCREDITATION

7 two of our pretheological schools are accredited with their
éctive regional agency, one for the high school department and
other for the college division. Nine schools have acquired satis-
‘scholastic standing with their State Department of Education
2 State Caiversity, and the one remaining school has no official

‘aduates from these schools who become professionally employed

er States .or abroad have difficulty in establishing their
éntials.

creditation with one of the regional. accrediting associations is
id anywhere, and it is this form of professional recognition our
hools should seek and eventually acquire. All of them are making
in that direction. The time limit for accomplishing accredita-
is relative to the kind and number of inadequacies to be removed.
institutions with many shortcomings will require several years
‘eliminate all of the weak areas, .

here need be no apprehension that the accrediting agency will in
manner interfere with the purposes of the school, its religious
uction, or its educational philosophy. All it asks is “That‘it be
best: possible school of its type.”. There is a clear statement
eguarding the character and control of our schools in the Revised

of Accreditation of the North Central Association of Colleges.

; \ccreditation will give oir schools their proper standing in the’
uscherne of American education and act as a potent incentive for the
2 introduction and maintenance of educational facilities - and sound
Anstructional procedures.

Recommendations
It.is recommended:

1.. That all schools plan for full accreditation. with their respec-
tive regional agency.

2. That, as a first step, they be instructed to evaluate the entire
educational program of the institution in the light of the
requirements of the accrediting association.

ACTION OF SYNOD

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