# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S222
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10.

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

. That beginning with the new fiscal year, February 1, 1948,

the salary of all associate professors be automatically ad-
vanced to the minimum in the new scale to be recom-

* mended for that classification.
. That beginning with the new fiscal year, February 1, 1948,

the salary of all Presidents be automatically advanced to
the minimum in the scale for that classification. It is un-
derstood that current arrangement for special salary allot-
ments ($180 and $300 annually) in ratio to enrollment are
discontinued.

. That all local Boards of Control be instructed to submit their

proposals on initial ranking of their teaching staff to the
Board for Higher Education not later than April 1, 1949.

. That the local Boards of Control be instructed to recognize

the requirements of the ranking provisions when they sub-
mit budgets for review by the Board for Higher Education
in June, 1949. The budget provisions approved by the
Board of Directors and the Fiscal Conference will then
automatically make the ranking provisions effective be-
ginning on February 1, 1950.

. That all staff adjustments, after September 1, 1947, except

those listed in prior sections of this series of reeommenda-
tions, are to be made in accordance with the ranking pro-
visions and are to be the assigned responsibility of the local
Boards of Control acting in conjunction with the Board for
Higher Education in accordance with the synodical regula-
tions governing such adjustments.

. That the policy of subsidizing professors or associate pro-

fessors by grants in aid for university study be completely
eliminated,

. That Boards of Control be directed to recommend subsidies

for university study by Instructors when such additional
study is made mandatory by changes in local circumstances
(e.g., addition of courses; requests to assist in library;
guidance work; etc.) beyond the control of the Instructors
involved. Such recommendations are to become effective
upon review and approval by the Board for Higher Edu-
cation. .

That the Board for Higher Education be instructed to study
the possibility of applying similar arrangements to the fac-
ulties of the Seminaries and to report its findings and recom-
mendations to the next convention of Synod.