# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S178
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

need for ministerial students and have the graduates of all
our Preparatory Schools enter River Forest for two years.
Let our students go to any college of their own choice for
_two years after graduating from our Preparatory Schools.
Improve the status quo to actually conform to the recom-
mendations of the curriculum committee of 1938.

Establish a separate school of religion attached to Val-
paraiso University.

Establish a Valparaiso extension on the University’s prop-
erty in Chicago.

Establish a Valparaiso extension on the River Forest
campus.

Establish a subsidy arrangement whereby selected students
would continue advanced studies at secular schools selected
by a Church board.

Establish a separate two- or four-year Senior College.
Establish a two-year college on the St. Louis campus.
Establish one four-year Senior College exclusively for
ministerial training. Over a period of years transfer the
ten Preparatory Schools to Districts or other groups of
congregations and subsidize these schools under an ar-
rangement which makes subsidies proportionate to the
number of graduates matriculating at the Senior College.

appeared that the bulk of these many proposals might be

reduced to three general categories.

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2.

A separate two-year or four-year college.

Attach a two-year Senior College to

a. An existing Synodical Senior College
(Seward — River Forest)

b. One of the Theological Seminaries

c. Valparaiso University

d. Any or all of the Preparatory Colleges

. A subsidy arrangement which would

a. Leave the present system unaffected but which would
control the selection of students and schools involved in
the subsidized program.

b. Transfer all present Preparatory Schools to District
operation and enable General Synod to return to its
‘traditional policy of exclusive concentration upon min-
isterial and teacher training.

The most thorough investigation and conscientious study of
extension possibilities reveals only three basic policy areas in

which

practically all of Synod’s educators are in full harmony: