# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S202
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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200 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the futility of attempts at this time to estimate accurately immediate
or ultimate costs of any indicated construction. They illustrate also
how completely both cost and construction schedules are beyond
the control of any board. Finally, it is necessary only to mention
the international chaos in the religious, academic, economic, and
social categories which must inevitably condition both the hopes
and the achievements of such a venture.

Earnest efforts to agree on the propriety of selecting any one
of the proposed plans under these conditions revealed a wide
divergence of opinion; however, after an objective discussion of
the premises offered and of the relative merits of the various plans,
the Advisory Council (College and Seminary presidents) concurred
with your Board in the following Recommendations:

A. That Synod establish a Senior College as an additional
unit in the professional training of ministerial students.
(The term “Senior College” is understood to designate the
academic level of the junior and senior years of the standard
American college.)

1. That the present Junior College system be retained.

2. That the curriculum of the present Junior College and
the proposed Senior College be completely articulated
and integrated and that the same degree of co-ordination
be established between the entire College program and
the program at the Seminary.

3. That the changes necessary in the present Junior College
program to achieve complete articulation and integration
of the Junior and Senior divisions be authorized.

4. That efforts toward securing regional accreditation of
the ministerial academies and Junior Colleges be accele-
rated during the next triennium.

B. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to continue
its study to determine a satisfactory location for the Senior
College as well as its organization, curriculum, and plant
requirements.

1. That upon completion of these studies the Board be
directed to formulate plans for the location, organization,
curriculum, and physical plant of the Senior College and
to submit these preliminary plans together with its
recommendations to the synodical Convention of 1950.

2. That any costs occasioned by the preparation and pres-
entation of such preliminary plans be approved for
payment as items separate from the regular budget of
the Board for Higher Education.