# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S217
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 215

to the extension of a call are the Seminary students (assistant
professors) who are both inexperienced and immature at the
time of their teaching service. Changes occurring in the natural
maturation of these men when they return to school and then
enter the ministry or engage in further academic preparation as
well as the considerable time interval involved, make it hazardous
to base recommendations for a life-tenure call on the type of
service rendered as “Assistant Professor.” Under the ranking
proposals, such men could be appointed to instructorships upon
the completion of seminary work, ministerial experience, and
academic preparation. If satisfactory teaching performance then
indicated the desirability of such action, they could be per-
manently called at the level of associate professor whenever they
have met the criteria set for that level.

6. It should be noted, also, that under this plan no permanent
teachers can come into the Synod’s system without going through
the regular process of nomination and election as currently re-
quired. On the other hand, men of proven value and experience
need not enter the system at the instructor level. They could be
called directly from the ministry or from other teaching positions
to an associate professorship, a professorship, or an administrative
office, if they meet the criteria for those levels.

7a. A proper application of this principle will enable the
Church to pay experienced teachers and administrative personnel
salaries which are more commensurate with their work and at
the same time provide reasonable remuneration for inexperienced
or temporary teaching help without increasing the total instruc-
tional costs at a given institution beyond the amounts required
by the resolutions adopted by the Convention of 1944. This can
be accomplished over a period of time by maintaining a proper
balance between the various ranks on the teaching staff.

7b. A salary scale with properly spaced maxima and minima
for each rank would also provide opportunity to give effect to the
following directives adopted by the Synod of 1944:

“That the policy of uniform salary scales for all institutions,
irrespective of location, be discontinued and that the salary(scales
be modified on the basis of living-cost indices, so as to provide
higher salaries for teachers in high-cost areas (River Forest,
Oakland, Bronxville, Portland); or that three salary scales be
introduced, as indicated in the report above.

“That the differential between faculty salaries and President’s
salaries be accentuated by means of an increase in the salaries
of the latter.

“That salary scales of registrars and dean-registrars at the