# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S785
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

BOARDS OF ELECTORS .
425. The Boards of Electors :

A. There shall be a Board of Electors for each edu-
cational institution of Synod in North America. The
Boards of Electors shall be constituted as follows:
1) The President of Synod, with one vote; 2) a mem-
ber of the Board for Higher Education, with one vote;
3) the president or principal of the institution con-
cerned, with one vote; 4) the Board of Control, with
one collective vote; 5) two pastors and one ‘teacher,
elected as members at large to serve for all institutions
of Synod, each with one vote. The faculty of the insti-
tution shall be represented in case of the election of
a president and shall be entitled to one vote.

B. There shall be separate Boards of Electors for
Synod’s academies, colleges, and seminaries in South
America. ‘ These boards shall be constituted as follows:
1) The President of Synod or his representative, with
one vote; 2) the President of the District in which the
institution is located, with one vote; 3) the President
of the institution concerned, with one vote; 4) the
Board of Control, with one collective vote; 5) one
pastor, one teacher, and one layman to be elected at
large by the respective District, each with one vote.

C. The respective Board of Electors shall, as a rule,
meet at the college or at the institution calling. It
shall elect one candidate from the list of candidates
obtained in the manner described under “Appointment
of Faculties.”

D. The Board of Electors shall suspend or remove
from office any instructor or administrative officer
whose theological, moral, academic, physical, or emo-
tional unfitness for the performance of the duties of
the respective offices has been duly established. — In
such case the Board of Control shali be entitled to one
collective vote.

S. H. 73 ff.

FACULTIES

427. Membership of Faculty

The faculty of each synodical institution shall con-
sist of the entire permanent teaching staff called in

accordance with the regulations of Synod, including -

president, dean, registrar, and librarian of professorial
rank. Assistant instructors shall not have the rank of
faculty membership.

429. Qualifications of Faculty Members

The minimum qualifications of membership in any
faculty of Synod shall be:

a. That a professor be a member in good standing
of Synod or of one of the affiliated synods,

b. That a professor ordinarily be an ordained min-
ister or a teacher with three years of experience in
the active ministry or the teaching profession. One
year of successful vicarage may be counted toward the
three-year requirement,

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