# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S221
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 219

It appears that every staff member is entitled to individual
consideration on the basis of actual performance in the profession
at a given school and on the basis of the following criteria.

CRITERIA FOR RANKING
1. Academic preparation as expressed in terms of graduate
degrees or semester hours of graduate study.
2. Experience in teaching.
3. Acceptable character, attitudes, interests.
4. Scholarly productions related to teaching specialty.
5. Value to the institution as teacher or administrator.

Speciric STANDARDS FoR ADVANCEMENT TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP
OR PROFESSORSHIP

1. Master’s degree from recognized university or the équivalent |
in teaching major.

2. In addition, 15 to 20 semester hours in education.

3. Five or more years experience in teaching on the secondary
or college level, at least three years in the subject matter
specialty.

4. Evidence, ordinarily by actual performance at one of Synod’s
schools, of acceptable attitudes, interests, and ability to teach.

5. Evidence, ordinarily by actual experience, of a sympathetic
understanding of «the functions and requirements of the
various phases of practical parish work and of a reasonable
familiarity with the aims, traditions, and organization of the
Synod and of its educational institutions.

Scholarly productions in the field of teaching specialty or in

education may provide an acceptable substitute for No.1 above.

Having given extensive consideration to the implications de-

scribed, your Board offers the following recommendations for con-
sideration.
RECOMMENDATIONS

Re Faculties of All Preparatory Schools and Teachers Colleges

1. That the provisions for ranking be applied to all appoint-
ments of assistants who are beginning service on or after
September, 1948.

2. That all called men now on our teaching staffs be classified
as Associate Professors after September 1, 1947. This classi-
fication is to effect no change whatsoever in the tenure,

fe status, salary, title, or other prerogatives of the personnel
involved. It is understood that this proposed classification
establishes no rank, but is necessary to achieve a basis upon
which ranking may be applied by the local boards.