# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S187
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 185

Accreditation of such a unit would have to await the results
of a considerable operating experience (four to six years) in order
to permit the school to accumulate records for evaluation.

The distribution of approximately 300 ministerial students now
enrolled at Milwaukee would involve serious problems. Pre-
sumably such students would enroll in Synod’s nearest Midwest
Preparatory Schools, where such numbers could not, however, be
accommodated without providing for substantial additions to edu-
cational and housing facilities as well as to the instructional staff.

A final negative factor is the fact that such a plan would
involve a disturbing amount of shifting of ministerial students
from campus to campus (from Junior College to Senior College to
Seminary). Educationally, any two-year plan is unattractive from
the viewpoint of administration and is likely to offer inadequate
time for the establishing of desirable spiritual and academic
attitudes.

Some of the buildings of the present school are in excellent
condition and adequate for housing a Junior College, but are not
considered adequate, although they are adaptable, for a Senior Col-
lege. With the new building now being contemplated and eventually
to be erected, it would require a new dormitory; reconditioning of
the present dormitories for Senior College student housing, which ©
can hardly be upon the same plane as for Junior College and High
School students; and extensive reconditioning of the present
Administration Building, if not, in fact a new one, so as to meet
the demands for Senior College purposes. Conservatively esti-
mated, the reconstruction, reconditioning, and new construction
would probably not exceed in the immediate future the sum of
$750,000 to accommodate three hundred students.

The reassignment of the entire present faculty and the selection
of a new faculty would constitute a formidable problem. This
procedure would not necessarily preclude the re-engaging under
a new call of such faculty members as may be considered competent
to teach at a Senior College.

It would also be considered imperative that the present type
of administration under a local Board of Control be abolished
and a new administrative control be set up. Just what the form
and powers of such administration should be is not immediately
apparent, but certain it is that broader representation and an
extension of its powers would be desirable. Such a reconstitution
of administrative control must also give thought to the method of
selecting and calling the instructional staff. To meet the required
standards of a competent faculty, the present synodical method of
nominating candidates and limiting the selection to such a list is
considered inadequate for procuring the best men available.