# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S239
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 237

perienced serious difficulty in securing well-indoctrinated teachers
qualified to teach on the secondary level. Recognizing this, the
Association of Lutheran Secondary Schools has requested that such
training be undertaken by our Teachers Colleges. After studying
the problem, our faculty has agreed that this is desirable; there-
fore be it
Resolved, That we, the faculty of Concordia Teachers College,
River Forest, Ill, recommend to the Delegate Synod assembled at
Chicago, Ill, that the Teachers Colleges of Synod be authorized to
undertake the preparation of high school teachers on a limited scale
as soon as they find it feasible to inaugurate such a program.
THe FAcutty of CONCORDIA TEACHERS CoLLEGE
Rrver Forest, ILu.

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 Synod resolved:

That the problem of training teachers for our Lutheran high
schools presented on pages 31 and 191 and in an unprinted me-
morial submitted by the faculty at River Forest be referred to the
Board for Higher Education, subject to synodical regulations
now existing. :

IX. Accreditation

The matter of accreditation has given your Board progressively
urgent concern during the past triennium. The normal develop-
ment of American education is making it increasingly difficult to
transfer credits from unaccredited schools while at the same time
the Church has increasing desires and requirements for practical
and instructional competence in fields in which Synod’s schools
offer no advanced work.

The 1944 Convention directed all schools to plan for full rec-
ognition from a regional accrediting association. Each school was
also instructed to evaluate its entire educational program in the
light of the requirements of the accrediting agency which assumes
jurisdiction in its geographical area.

While we have endeavored to keep in mind the primary pur-
pose of Synod’s Colleges and the absolute necessity for unlimited
freedom to establish any courses and procedures which Synod’s
purposes require, your Board has also recognized that the prin-
ciples governing establishment of accrediting agencies in a system
of education are well founded. It must be recognized that certain
very positive values have been achieved through the processes of
accreditation in American education. Many institutions have been
led to raise their standards, to place their organizations on a
sounder financial basis, to provide better facilities for students