# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S199
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 197

Practical experience has shown that it is both feasible and
practicable to have a single administration heading both sections
of such an institution on a given campus. However, the adoption
of this plan — or any plan establishing a Senior College — should,
in the Board’s opinion, automatically involve a new type of Board
of Control or Trustees of the College with broader powers and
national representation. Such a Board would also require freedom
to call men on the basis of proved ability rather than. being con-
fined to a list of candidates as now proposed. It would appear
that Synod and the best interests of the School require that a single
Board with a thorough and sympathetic understanding of the
objectives set and of the technical details involved, should be
entrusted with direct responsibility for all phases of operation
of the School.

Organization and Administration of the Senior College

Board of Control

a
President
| |

Executive Dean Executive Dean
of Senior College of the Seminary

Administrational Offices of the Institution |
College Faculty Seminary Faculty

Quite inevitably the adoption of such a plan will also dictate
certain curricular modifications in the Seminary. Students could
no longer be classified on a class basis. Major and minor areas
of study and interests would have to be recognized as the de-
termining factors in requirements and classifications. Such major
and minor fields must, of course, be properly correlated in the
College and articulated with the courses in the Seminary. Changes
in methods of presenting materials, the enlargement of the faculty
membership, and further elevation of faculty competence might
properly be expected as normal results at the Seminary.

It is admitted that there would indeed be serious educational