# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S115
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 111

ants so that the work and growth of Synod may, at a minimum,
er tinue the pattern of the past quarter century.
eon The Board’s report is divided into the following major
sections:

A. Reorganization Proposals

B. The Senior College

endations on the Current Requests from Institutions
C ee’ the Building for Tomorrow Program

oposed Schedule for Reorganization, Fund-Raising, and the
p. Establishment of a Senior College
E. Integration of the Lutheran High Schools
F. Recommendations on Administrative Relations

Section A. Reorganization Proposals

I. THE PROBLEMS
As long as Synod continues to operate an educational program
for the training of its professional workers, three basic problems
will require continuous attention and study:

1. The establishment and maintenance of workable ratios
between the supply of, and demand for, professional workers.

2. The search for means to apply progressively higher stand-
ards, improved methods, and more effective integration to
the program of ministerial and teacher training. -

3. The solution of problems 1 and 2 within the range of the
financial capacity of the supporting constituency and the
measure of God’s blessing upon the stewardship activity of
Synod’s clergy and administration.

Previous Recommendations to Synod

In its report to the Centennial Convention, the Board for Higher
Education focused its major recommendations on policies which are
basic to progress in the solution of the mentioned problems.

First of all, the Board placed before the convention and before
all of the clergy of Synod a clearly defined statement of The
Objectives of Ministerial Training.

In the second place, by rewriting the section on higher educa-
tion in the official Handbook, the Board provided an extensive
recasting of the entire plan of administration of Synod’s educational
Program and institutions. This procedure involved setting up new
approaches to the relationship between ‘Synod and the various
administrative agencies involved in the field of higher education.

Finally, in its recommendations the Board ‘proposed: an up--
grading of the educational standards by calling for the addition of

@ senior college as an integral part of the synodical: program
of ministerial training. moet