# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S597
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 138

ough it is a heavy drain on faculty and administration strength,
t must be done in addition to the regular load assigned by
stitution, both Board and faculty feel that it is eminently
th'while. The ready and growing response of our teachers and
ors has shown that the institution’s efforts are appreciated.

Teacher Shortage and Acceleration

of the Teacher-Training Program
‘The shortage of day school teachers to which attention was
led by our representatives at the Synod in Fort Wayne has be-
ne alarming and, if it is not relieved, will cause irreparable
age to some of our schools. In order to turn out trained
hers more rapidly, emergency measures were undertaken with
@ co-operation of Synod’s Boards. During the school year
42-43 a program of acceleration was introduced in the college
department, and an additional Summer Quarter of 11 weeks was
ered in the summer of 1943. The accelerated Summer Quarter
1944 will be in progress by the time Synod convenes.

After a year of experience we find that acceleration solves
‘a. number of problems and raises others. The tempo of work is
increased, required subject matter is covered in less time, and
teachers for our day schools are produced somewhat more rapidly.
It is too early to state whether the increased strain on the nerves
of students due to the necessity of mastering the subject matter
ore rapidly, the year-round pursuit of study without letup, and
the additional financial burden to students and parents will make
it advisable to continue the accelerated summer program beyond
the duration of the emergency. Meanwhile the faculty, administra-
on, and students have cheerfully carried their heavy wartime |
tasks to the best of their strength and ability.

Larger Enrollment Needed

Acceleration alone will not take care of Synod’s teacher needs.
More young men and women must be secured to take up this im-
portant work. Though we must keep up and.even expand our
long-range program by training a larger number of preparatory
‘school students, we are particularly concerned now with the im-
mediate problem of supplying teachers quickly. We therefore
petition the congregations of Synod to send us an even. larger
number of intelligent and consecrated high school graduates or
zyoung men and women who have had a year:or more of college
work elsewhere, in order that we may prepare them for Chris~
‘tian day school teaching by means of our regular curriculum and
“special courses in Biblical history and doctrine arranged for them.