# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S107
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 1038

« : ith the Faculties

Meee Board for Higher Education shall call a meeting of

.: po ies of Synod’s educational institutions during the year

the fact the triennial convention of Synod for the purpose of

ing, co-ordinating, and improving the educational policies,

studying, rocedures, and curricula of Synod’s educational

standards, No member of any faculty shall be excused ex-

inst r valid reasons. The cost of such meeting, including

oot for travel, room, and board incurred by each person
otending in an official capacity, shall be paid by Synod.”

It will be noted that the calling of a professors’ conference is

tory and that it is not left to the judgment or discretion of

manciat cial or board to decide whether or not such conference is

any e held. In direct violation of such provision, the conference

to eduled for the summer of 1949 was canceled on account of the

sch cial situation of our Synod, which was described as somewhat

precarious.
We respectfully inform the convention that the decision to

cancel the conference was made very early in 1949, when the fiscal
year had run less than two months, when no one could possibly
predict what the financial situation would be in the summer of |
1949, when Synod had a cash balance amounting to $893,496.88 in
the Postwar Reserve Fund and when the professors’ conference
called for an expenditure of less than 1% of Synod’s budgetary
commitments for educational purposes. We further call attention
to the fact that the financial situation in our Synod did not cause
the cancellation of certain other conventions, such as that of the
workers among the deaf. Neither were the professors given the
opportunity to meet and pay a part or all of their expenses. Not
many years ago a professors’ conference was held under such
conditions.

These conferences constitute the only opportunity the profes-
sors have to discuss their common problems and to make -their
wishes known. The cancellation of a conference which the synod-
ical Handbook makes mandatory is a step toward bureaucracy and
away from democracy, especially since these professors’ confer-
ences are a time-honored institution of our Synod which has
received the praise of accrediting agencies,

We therefore urge the convention to leave Section 6.11 intact
and to encourage the Board for Higher Education to give it effect.

Facutry or Concorpra Cottece, Sr. Pau, Minn.
W. A. Pornzer, President
Artuour C, STREUFERT, Secretary

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