# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S558
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Report of Board for Higher. Education — 559° '

thodist-Episcopal schools were four-year colleges. Strictly. com-
rable figures with institutions outside Synod are not available.

further important outcome of the analyses is the segregation of
e cost of the auxiliary enterprises, such as the meal services and
the dormitories, from the instructional costs. Heretofore no accurate
study has ever been made of the meal services because the books of
account have not properly segregated their costs.

‘It is interesting to note the percentage of the total cost which is
assed on to the student. The pretheological student, although
charged variable fees (in Bronxville $190 per year, at Milwaukee

eals, at Bronxville, and 37 per cent of them in Milwaukee. If the
meal ‘costs are excluded, then it is shown that at Bronxville the pre-
‘theological student pays for 7 per cent of the educational and dormi-
‘tory costs, at Milwaukee 8 per cent. Colleges, in general, assess
ipproximately 50 per cent of the total educational costs to the
tudent, the remaining 50 per cent coming from.endowments. Synod

id 92-93 per cent of them for the pretheological student at Bronx-
fle and Milwaukee in 1940-41. .

: The non-boarding student in. our schools is customarily charged
with too small a percentage of the costs of his education. Bronx-
ville in this year had no students of this type, but at Milwaukee
a considerable number of them were present. They were charged
$29.00 per year. This represented 13 per cent of the actual costs
of instruction. This situation has now been remedied at Milwaukee,
but not at all of the other institutions.

. ‘Milwaukee has no large group ‘of non-theological students. Bronx-
ville has an appreciable percentage of them. At Bronxville the non-
theological student contributes between 67 per cent and 73 per cent
of the total costs if he is a boarding student, 43-55 per cent if he is
a non-boarding student. Excluding meals, the non-theological student
pays 52-61 per cent of the instructional costs at Bronxville, only 38
per cent at Milwaukee. The general high school student paid 50 per
cent and 30 per cent respectively. The percentages are considered
_ to be satisfactory for Bronxville, too low for Milwaukee.

For Bronxville, Synod contributed $372.78 per pretheological
‘student in 1940-41. When this amount is added to the sum paid
by the pretheological student himself, it becomes clear that Synod has
contributed a greater share’ per student than is actually warranted.
The excess contributions have been diverted for the benefit of the non-
theological student and in part cover the costs in excess of student -
_ Payments for this group. The balance of the costs for this group
ate derived from supperting organizations. The excess synodical
-contributions for the pretheological student are in the form of more
teachers on the staff than would be actually required if the institution
had only pretheological students. The total” extess amount con-
‘tributed by Synod in 1940-41 amounts to approximately $4,000. In

$137 per year), pays for 38 per cent of the fotal costs, including - ,