# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S542
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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Report of Board for Higher Education | 543

y. devote to this temporary privilege without serious interference
ith his scholarship and injury to his health. At some of our schools

‘e-is need for a planned procedure for permitting and: “supervising
tside student employment.

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| effective means toward the induction of new students into the
Casual talks will not accomplish the purpose.. The program

ith the ideals and procedures of the school, with the library and its
with proper methods of study, and with all other important
s, of his new environment and responsibilities. To be really
tive, orientation ought to continue for one ‘semester at least; it
if not be completed in three or four days. Only two schools out of

Recommendations
is recommended:

That the faculties take vigorous measures to eliminate in-
fractions of the rules: of decorous conduct.

That the faculties give more thought to the problem of
maintaining and strengthening the student’s determination.
to enter the ministty.

. That every institution introduce a system of faculty advisers.

4. That the faculty study the problem of the social development
of the students and devise ways and means for producing
a socially more acceptable group of graduates,

. That to this end an experiment be made at the larger schools
in employing a matron or a housemaster to take charge of
the dormitories. ;

. That every institution be advised to introduce a series of
orientation days for the induction of new students at the
beginning of the school year.

That, where necessary, the faculties be advised to improve
their admission procedure.

. That at institutions where it has not yet been done, a faculty
member be appointed to take charge of off-campus student
employment.

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All eight recommendations under “XT. Student Bodies” were -

and duties of college membership is a program of orientation.

be well prepared and should familiarize the bewildered entrant,

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