# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S88
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84 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

School by dropping a class each year so that the final group; .
be graduated in a few months. Though the number of tea .
has increased, the faculty-student ratio has became more
favorable from year to year as more and more of our stud
moved into the College, where the faculty-student ratio is
pected to be higher than in High School. The new faculty
bers added have all been on the instructor level. As a result, #
some of our fields, instructors are teaching much too great a pr¢
portion of the courses offered. In English, for instance, 3/7 of th
work is being taught by instructors, in Social Science over 2/
in Mathematics and Sciences over 2/5, and even in Doctrine ty
major part of the teaching is done by two emeriti. :

After careful consideration of Synod’s teacher-training prg
gram at our college, we have resolved to come to Synod agaj
with our urgent request for more members of permanent rank gq
our teaching staff. We therefore request: 4

J. Five Additional Associate Professorships
In 1947 we asked Synod for seven additional associate profeg

sorships. In view of the new rank of assistant professor, now pri
posed by the Board for Higher Education, we have reduced oy
request to five associate professorships, to be distributed through
out all of our fields with emphasis on those where a very hig
percentage of the teaching is being done by instructors. Especialff
in Religion, we feel that an additional associate professorship i
very urgent. q

At the same time we propose that five of our associate prg
fessorships be converted into full professorships, thus leaving 't
fifteen associate professorships and ten professorships, a total ¥

twenty-five called men.

2. Five New Assistant Professorships

We assume that Synod will create the new rank of assistaj
professor as proposed by the Board for Higher Education. We
that this rank will be more satisfactory for our college than §
instructorships have been. As a four-year college we cannot §
ways use very fine men whose academic qualifications might pq
mit them to serve in a synodical high school or junior colleg
In our school such teachers must have a Master’s degree or
equivalent in each field in which they are to teach. We prefers
call in men from the field. Ordinarily such men have fa ili
and it has been difficult, if not altogether impossible, to s
them with the salary and tenure arrangements of an instruct
ship. We therefore respectfully request permission to call in §
such assistant professors, or advance present instructors to

rank.

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