# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S207
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 206

lishment of a four-year course at Concordia Collegiate Institute,

Bronxville, N. Y., for the education of our lay students and minis-

terial students. New York anp New Jersey District
LutHeran LAyMEN’s LEAGUE

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

A. That Synod establish a senior college (on the level of the
junior and senior years of the American college system) as an ad-
ditional unit in its program of the professional training of minsterial
students.

1. That Synod’s high school-junior college system be retained;

2. That the curriculum of our high school-junior college sys-
tem, with any necessary changes, be integrated with that of the
proposed senior college and that the curriculum of the senior col-
lege, or its equivalent, be a pre-requisite for entrance into the
St. Louis seminary;

3. That efforts toward securing regional accreditation of the
ministerial academies and junior colleges be accelerated during the
next triennium so as to facilitate accreditation of the proposed
senior college. ‘

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 for Higher
Education be instructed to formulate the above plans and to submit
them together with its recommendations to the next synodical con-
vention;

2. That any costs occasioned by the preparation and presenta-
tion of such preliminary plans be approved for payment as items
separate from the regular budget of the Board for Higher Edu-
cation.

Ill. Student Counselor Program

The problem centers around the need for constructive guidance
and counseling programs in the residence halls of our educational
institutions and the need for spiritually qualified and well-trained
individuals to supervise such programs.

Obviously the accepted definition of “Proctor” as “a college
or university official who enforces order and obedience” does not
define our purpose in this respect. Since it has proved neither
adequate, practical, nor sufficiently effective in ordinary educa-
tional projects, this plan is still less suited to our specialized and
spiritualized objectives. The extremes of too little and too much