# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S223
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 221

In this connection Committee 1 considered also Unprinted
Memorial 20 by Dr. Martin Graebner, who opposed the plan be-
cause it might narrow the choice of those to be called to young
and inexperienced men with no experience in the ministry.

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod resolved:

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

2. That all called men now on our teaching staffs be classified

as associate professors after September, 1947. This classification is

to effect no change whatsoever in the tenure, 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;

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

salary of all associate professors be automatically advanced to the
minimum in the new scale to be recommended for that classifi-
cation; .
4, That beginning with a new fiscal year, February 1, 1948, the
salgry of all presidents be automatically advanced to the minimum
in the scale for that classification. It is understood that current
arrangements for special salary allotments ($180 and $300 an-
nually) in ratio to enrollments are discontinued;

5. 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;

6. That the local Boards of Control be instructed to recognize
the requirements of the ranking provisions when they submit
budgets for review by the Board for Higher Education in June,
1949. The budget provisions approved by the Board of Directors
and the Fiscal Conferences will then automatically make the
ranking provisions effective beginning on February 1, 1950;

7. That all staff adjustments after September 1, 1947, except
those listed in prior sections of this series of recommendations are
to be made in accordance with the ranking provisions and are to
be the assigned responsibility of the local Board of Control acting
in conjunction with the Board for Higher Education in accordance
with the synodical regulations governing such adjustments;

8. That the policy of subsidizing professors or associate pro-
fessors by grants in aid for university study be completely elimi-
nated;