# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S193
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES’AND COLLEGES 191

es. four principal parties involved: Synod, Valparaiso University, the
ee students, and the Teachers College. It becomes necessary, there-
fore, to assume certain relationships, and these are contained in
the following proposals:

1, That Synod erect a small group of buildings on the north
section of the River Forest campus. These buildings should
provide facilities of the following kinds for about 300
students: a chapel, classrooms, study and sleeping rooms,
group living rooms, offices, and a small auditorium. It would
also be necessary that Synod erect or acquire residences for
its Senior College staff if it wishes to continue the policy
of furnishing residences as part of the remuneration.

2. That the operation of the Senior College be divided into three
distinctly, but co-operatively administered and_ staffed
divisions.

a. The Division of Instruction. This division would be ad-
ministered and staffed entirely by Valparaiso University.
Synod would designate the courses which must be made
available to the Senior College students. Valparaiso
University would also provide a resident Dean of Instruc-
tion, responsible to the President of Valparaiso University.
However, Valparaiso University would agree to submit
all courses and all appointments to teaching positions
and to the position of Dean of Instruction for approval
by a called, resident, synodical officer (the Dean of
Students), responsible to Synod through the Board for
Higher Education, Because the instruction would be
offered by Valparaiso University, it would be appropriate
to name the Senior College “The Ministerial School of
Valparaiso University.”

b. The Division of Student Guidance. This division would be
staffed entirely by Synod, its personnel being called or
appointed through the same arrangements which Synod
establishes for its own educational institutions. This
division would be in charge of a regularly called, resident
Dean of Students. The Division of Student Guidance
would have sole responsibility for all students; would
conduct all activities appropriate for the spiritual and
social development of the students; and would be charged
with the duty of supervising, stimulating, and supple-
menting through informal and extra-curricular means the
students’ intellectual and academic pursuits, interests, and
achievements. Thus, an arrangement would be effected
whereby a group of synodical students, under the constant

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