# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S117
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 113

its present rate of growth and which can be met only if we begin
its on adjust our existing schools so that they will eventually
fit into a senior college pattern and so that they will soon supply

e ministerial and teacher training graduates regardless of
n hether the senior college is introduced at this time or not. Such
wv plan necessarily involves considerable internal organizational
adjustment at the colleges and seminaries, It should also involve

aking use of the available Lutheran high schools in the Middle
West, and it should recognize the need for some type of co-ordinator
to carry forward a continuing study and a measure of control over
the various and complex supply and demand problems which are’
becoming progressively more acute in direct ratio to the growth
of Synod Changing Factors

As the Board progressed in its studies, it found that revision
of several previously held viewpoints became mandatory. At one
time there was a strong opinion that considerable savings in
operational costs plus greater operational efficiency could be
achieved if the number of educational institutions were reduced.
The present study showed, however, that under existing circum-
stances it would be both uneconomical and unwise for Synod to
attempt such a reduction.

This change in viewpoint results from the fact that former
studies of the supply and demand problem concentrated upon a
minute scrutiny of Synod’s past experience; however, the pro-
jection into the future, which is a part of the present analysis,
indicates that the methods used in previous Studies led to ‘an

and the Opportunities for expansion and growth were, and had to
be, totally unforeseen a few years ago.

The Board’s study of such a Proposal made it clear that in ©
order to establish a smaller number of institutions which could
accommodate the required enrollments, it would’ be’ necessary
to double the capacity of eight existing institutions, to adjust two
others, and to abandon four entirely. The cost of the expansion’