# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S783
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

FUNCTIONS OF BOARDS OF CONTROL
417. General Function of Boards of Control

‘The general function of the Board of Control shall
be legislative or policy-forming within the limits fixed
by Synod. The Board of Control may act either di-
rectly or through committees on any questions in
which its legal responsibilities are involved, such as
the signing of contracts, court action, etc. On other
matters the Board of Control shall act through its
constituted executive officers. These functions and
powers, however, are lodged in the members of the
Board of Control only as a group; an individual mem-
ber of the Board of Control shall have no legal right
to take any action affecting the institution or anyone
connected with it, unless he has been specifically com-
missioned for this purpose by the Board of Control.
The president of the respective institution shall be the
executive. of the Board of Control. He shall make
regular and detailed reports to the Board of Control
regarding the administration of his office and the gen-
eral condition of the institution.

S. H. 67ff. (partly new)

419, Specific Functions of Boards of Control

A. The Board of Control shall initiate the appoint-
ment of temporary and the calling of permanent in-
structors and administrative officers in case of vacancies
in the faculty or- when additional members are added
thereto or new chairs are created. Vacancies shall be
filled, or new appointments made, only with the con-
sent of the Board of Directors and the Board for
Higher Education.

. B. The Board of Control shall elect, in conjunction

with the Board of Electors, members of the faculty and
administrative officers according to the regulations of
Synod.

C. The Board of Control, with the approval of the
Board of Directors and the Board for Higher Educa-
tion, shall grant leaves of absence for a specified time,
with or without salary, to instructors or administrative
officers of an institution on account of illness or for the
’ pursuance of advanced studies.

D. The Board of Control shall put’into effect the
educational program and the curriculum adopted by
Synod for the respective institution.

E. The Board of Control shall assure itself through
regular reports by the president of the institution or
by personally visiting classes, or by both methods, that
the work of the. institution is carried on effectively and
in the spirit of, and in accordance with, the theological,
moral, and academic standards of Synod. __

F. The Board of Control shall initiate the removal
of instructors or administrative officers whose theo-
logical, moral, academic, physical, or emotional unfit-
ness for the performance of the duties of their respec-
tive office has been duly established.

G. The Board of Control shall be responsible to
the Board of Directors of Synod for the condition of
the physical property of its respective institution and
for the proper operation and maintenance of existing

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