# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S114
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110 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

[148] C. REPORT OF THE BOARD
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

In its administration of the numerous directives on higher 2
education issued by the last convention, your Board for Highes 3
Education has attempted to give practical expression to the fact
that the primary objective which Synod seeks to achieve throug}j
its system of ministerial and teacher training is the creation of ‘
the deepest possible spiritual convictions and of ingrained attitude, :
of consecration and service. In this connection the Board
extremely grateful for the excellent leadership furnished by o
college and seminary presidents and for the encouragement, co.
operation, and help which it has received from other synodical ;
boards, officers, and, particularly, from the special Advisory Com-
mittee * appointed by President Behnken at the request of the:
Fiscal Conference. :

In the early part of the triennium the Board gave primary *
attention to the task of carrying out the synodical directives on'
accreditation, enrollment policies, testing, accounting, ranking of:
faculties, institutional budgets, resident student counselors, physical
education, and music. While these administrative techniques and
new areas of synodical responsibility contribute significantly to
the outcomes of our ministerial training program, the present
report will make it clear that new and major problems have now
combined to demand Synod’s attention and, consequently, have}
pre-empted major attention in the Board’s report to this convention‘

Tt can be‘said, without exaggeration, that these new problemi
and the financial implications involved constitute a real crisis fot
our Church. Accordingly we are compelled to devote the majo
portion of the Board’s 1950 report to calling Synod’s attention ti
the problems raised by the pressing demand for an increa sedg
volume of production of ministers and teachers. -

The following extensive and detailed presentations on hes
senior college, on the reorganization of the existing system, om
curricular problems, on integration of the Lutheran high schools
on changing the program pattern at some preparatory institutio
ahd on finances are all essential aspects of the one central prob
of producing an adequate number of properly trained profession

* Mr. Henry Buck, Kansas :City, Mo.; Rev. H. Hartner, Denve
Colo.;, Vice-President F. A. Hertwig, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. P. W.
St. Louis, Mo.; President W. Nitschke, Howard, S. Dak.; Dr. M. Pie
Chicago, Ill.; Rev. H. Romoser, Oak Park, Ill; Rev. O. A. Sauer, Rich
mond, Va.; Dr. M. H. Scharlemann,; Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; Rev. &
Smukal, Los Angeles, Calif.; Rev. C. Stephan, Bloomington, Ind.; Mr. }
E. Strieter, Rock Island, Ill; Rev. R. Wiederaenders, San Antonio, "