# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S212
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

210 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

petent person is available to direct such a program. It is apparent,
then, that any currently existing program of guidance at our
schools should not be eliminated, but should, instead, be integrated
with the program which may be developed under the House-
master’s direction.

It is apparent that the program could not be carried out, no
matter how well the school might be provided with a specialist
in the field, unless there is staff participation in many of the ac-
tivities. Specific areas of participation for the administrator, the
classroom teacher, the librarian, and the Housemaster will be
suggested by the Board for Higher Education, .

Conclusion

It is expected, finally, that the school will be willing to offer
complete and frank reports for the use of the Board for Higher
Education in its further study of the procedures which Synod has
authorized. There is no doubt that real and lasting benefits will
accrue to the students, the school involved, and, eventually, to
our entire Church if the best techniques for this type of guidance
can be discovered and put into practical operation on our various

campuses.
RECOMMENDATION

1. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to author-
ize the appointment at the instructor level of Resident Stu-
dent Counselors on any campus where the need is indi-
cated and where staff and administration give evidence of
sympathetic approval of the principles and purposes de-
scribed in the proposal here presented.

2. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to author-
ize local Boards of Control to call Resident Student Coun-
selors after an appropriate period of satisfactory service to
an associate professorship upon the request of the local
Board of Control and upon the presentation of satisfactory
evidence of the eligibility of the personnel involved and the
desirability of such action.

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

1. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to authorize
the appointment at the instructor level of Resident Student Coun-
selors on any campus where the need is indicated and where staff
and administration give evidence of sympathetic approval of the
principles and purposes described in the proposal here presented;

2. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to author-
ize local Boards of Control to call Resident Student Counselors