# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S89
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 85

3. Additional Instructorships as Needed

Since the instructorship offers a two-year tenure and will
jinarily be filled by men recently graduated from our synod-

saa} schools, we feel that we can use several men on this level
ica! thus balance our teaching load and meet new or changed
and as they arise. According to our present estimates, if we keep
th faculty-student ratio the same next year as we have it this
. and we certainly dare not reduce it, we shall need from

yeas ve of these instructors, depending on our enrollment.

two to fi
Note on Over-All Manpower

Since men of all ranks carry the same standard teaching load,
the over-all number of teachers needed will be the same whether
the above proposals are granted or not. The over-all cost will be
somewhat higher, depending upon the number of cases of advance-
ment and the salary differential between the various ranks. We
feel that this cannot be avoided if we are to train on the college
level, especially with the heavy emphasis on the senior college
and the professional education and music program.

Txe Boarp oF Controu
or Concorpra TEACHERS COLLEGE

Pau. L. Kiuenper, Secretary

Tue Facutty or CONcorDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
ArTHuR Kuinck, President

[131]
Establish the Third and the Fourth College Year
of Pre-Ministerial Training at River Forest

The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod resolved in 1947 “that
Synod establish a Senior College (on the level of the junior and
senior years of the American college system) as an additional unit
in its program of the professional training of ministerial students”
(Proceedings, p.205). A careful study of all suggestions made
toward establishing this program leads the faculty of Concordia
Seminary, St.Louis, Mo., to the conviction that the educational
and spiritual objectives of ministerial training can best be achieved
if provisions for the third and the fourth college year are made
at River Forest as part of that institution’s program without
changing its character or impairing its present teacher-training
objectives.

The following favorable factors warrant this conclusion:

1. The River Forest institution is an accredited senior college
approved by the North Central Association. The recommendation