# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S219
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 217

8. These proposals would enable the Boards of Control to give
desirable faculty status to teaching personnel which does not re-
quire a call (athletic directors, business managers, etc.) and for
which theological training is not mandatory, though it may be
desirable.

9. The system would offer an opportunity to correct obvious
inequities extant in the current situation in which men with no
experience in the profession, with no specific preparation in the
field, with relatively few academic credits, and with no degree are
automatically and immediately given tenure, salary, status, and
rank equal to those enjoyed by men who have worked on a faculty
for 25 and more years, have qualified for and have assumed heavy
and complex administrational responsibilities, have earned the
highest graduate academic degree available in their field from
reputable universities, and have proved themselves capable and
inspiring teachers.

10. The process of introducing Resident Student Counselors
(Housemasters) into the system is also simplified. Such delicate
problems of adjustment and compatability are involved in this
procedure, that it would be more than usually hazardous to im-
mediately extend life-time tenure calls to such positions. Appoint-
ment to an instructorship would offer all parties concerned time
for consideration and adjustment. Opportunity for advance to the
associate professorship level and, later, to a full professorship
would be a normal concofhitant of evidence of blessing upon the
work performed.

11. At present it is very difficult for accredited High School
divisions of the Preparatory Schools to find Seminary students
who meet the qualifications set by the accrediting agencies. At
the same time the salary currently offered for assistant professors
is not attractive to men with such qualifications and experience.
The proposals on ranking should make it considerably easier to
meet these needs without, however, immediately involvizg a call
and lifetime tenure.

12. The proposals also recognize the need for opportunity for
further study by instructors and provide suitable incentives for it.
‘An appointment to an instructorship involves salary during the
summer months, but the advisory faculty status attaching to this
position would not require the instructor’s presence on the campus
during that time. Under this arrangement, instructors would be
free to acquire further ministerial experience or study. Simul-
taneously, there would exist the assurance that satisfactory per-
formance efforts to meet the criteria of higher levels carry definite
promise of advancement and permanent tenure as well as the op-
portunity to recover part of the costs involved.