# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S213
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 211

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 eligibility of the
personnel involved and the desirability of such action.

IV. Ranking of Faculty Members

I

The ranking of faculty members, a routine practice in an
overwhelming majority of educational institutions throughout the
world, is a procedure which Synod has now had under considera-
tion for almost a decade. Already in 1938, although there had been
no recommendation to that effect from the Committee on Higher
Education, Synod asked the newly created Board for Higher Edu-
cation “to study the need and advisability of Synod’s differentiating
between several kinds of teachers at its institutions, such as in-
structors, assistant professors, and professors, and to define and
clarify the status of each.” (Proceedings, 1938, P. 49, Par. 6, Sec. 3.)

In 1941, the Board for Higher Education reported that it had
given this matter extensive study but found that it was not yet
“in a position to make definite recommendations.” Thereupon the
Synod directed: “That the study of this question be continued
during the coming triennium in connection with the general survey
which will be recommended to this Convention.” (Proceedings,
1941, p. 106.) .

The first specific recommendations on the subject became
part of the conclusions of the Hausmann survey and were placed
before Synod in 1944. While the printed report of that Con-
vention states that the pertinent section was adopted by Synod
“as is,” the official minutes record that Synod’s resolution actually
referred this section to “The Handbook Committee for considera-
tion.” (Proceedings, 1944, p. 507.)

Accordingly, your Board has conveyed its recommendations to
the Handbook Reviewing Committee, which has included the fol-
lowing in the proposed revision of the Handbook.

427. Members of Teaching Staff and Faculty

A. “The teaching staff of each educational institution of Synod
shall be composed of all those administrative officials and teachers
who are called by the electors or who are appointed by the Board
of Control. Four ranks shall receive official recognition.

“1, Assistants. They shall be appointed by the Board of Con-
trol upon recommendation by the President of the institution and
shall be recruited primarily from the ranks of the undergraduate
students of the Seminaries and the Teachers Colleges. The orig-

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