# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S116
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

112 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Synod’s Response ‘

In its Centennial Convention, Synod approved and adopteg
the Board’s statement on “The Objectives of Ministerial Training”4
it authorized all of the proposed administrative adjustments ante
ordered them printed in its official Handbook; it passed the follow
ing resolution on the senior college:
A. That Synod establish a senior college as an additional uni

in the professional training of ministerial students. (Th

term “senior college” is understood to designate the aca

demic level of the junior and senior years of the standanjf
American. college.) |
1. That the present junior college system be retained.
9. That the curriculum of the present junior college and:
the proposed senior college be completely articulated!
and integrated and that the same degree of co-ordination:
be established between the entire collége program and;
the program at the seminary.

3. That the changes necessary in the present junior college!
program to achieve complete articulation and integration’

of the junior and senior divisions be authorized. ‘

4. That efforts toward securing regional accreditation of:
the ministerial academies and junior colleges be acceler!
ated during the next triennium. z

B. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to continu
its study to determine a satisfactory location for the seniat
college as well as its organization, curriculum, and plant
requirements. Fs
1. That upon completion of these studies the Board

directed to formulate plans for the location, organi
tion, curriculum, and physical plant of the senior co
and to submit these preliminary plans together with
recommendations to the synodical convention of 195%
2. That any costs occasioned by the preparation and pre
entation of such preliminary plans be approved fo
payment as items separate from the regular budget of a4
Board for Higher Education. ‘

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The Board now places before this convention detailed recom
mendations on a reorganization plan and on the senior colleg
proposal. In addition, the Board is now furnishing extensif
growth studies which must be basic to any analysis of future supp}
and demand estimates and which must, necessarily, condition ay
planning in this field. In a startling fashion these growth studg
indicate needs from which there is no escape if Synod continu