# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S252
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250 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ACTION
Committee 1 reported that an appropriation for the proposed
Mission House at St. Louis is included in the building grants for
colleges and seminaries.

Upon recommendation of Committee 1 it was resolved:

That further study be given to the curricular modifications
implied by the expanded and intensified mission school program
by the Board for Higher Education.

XIV. Adjustments at Teachers Colleges

The teacher shortage prevailing during the past triennium has
created numerous problems and difficulties which have made ex-
treme and unusual demands on our teacher-training institutions.
The overtures from the Superintendents’ Conference, from the
Board for Parish Education, and from the faculties and boards of
the Teachers Colleges emphasize the continuing nature of the
situation. While your Board is not charged directly with finding
a solution which will make it possible to establish, maintain, and
expand parochial schools, it feels, nevertheless, a responsibility for
adjustments in the Teachers Colleges, since these are the major
source of supply for the manpower which staffs Synod’s parochial
schools.

Your Board desires to take this opportunity to offer public
commendation of the faculties and boards, the administrative of-
ficers, and the summer school staffs of the Teachers Colleges for
the significant contributions which they have made toward the ac-
celeration of the training of regular teachers and the emergency
preparation of relief teachers. There has been a laudable willing-
ness to contribute in sacrificial measure the time, talent, and
energy required by these efforts,

Detailed consideration has been given to specific plans which
would provide for the gradual suspension of the High School
Department at the Teachers Colleges in order to allow more space
for college students. Your Board is aware also of proposals to
provide for joint operation of the Teachers College High School
Departments by Districts and synods. Although such plans would
not be adequate to immediately terminate the shortage of teachers,
it is recognized that they would be effective as measures for future
relief. In consideration, however, of the fact that there may be
inherent in such proposals significant implications also for the
High School Departments at our ministerial Preparatory Schools,
and since the Board recognizes that its jurisdiction to effect such
basic policy changes might properly be questioned, it was reluctant
to issue the necessary directives which would authorize immediate