# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S163
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 161

‘ Wayne and the necessary training school
for coed i tion arrangements, The Winfield institution has
and aoe ducting similar work for some time and would require
beotively minor adjustments. In addition, it was proposed to train
a omen teachers (16 graduates from each) at both the Oakland
and the Bronxville institutions. Appropriate instructional and
housing facilities plus staff would be required at each school. ‘The

rent emphasis on recruiting teacher training students for all
the high school departments of the colleges would continue.

The execution of this plan would involve the loss of the high
school and junior college training program for the entire Minne-
sota region. All of Synod’s pre-ministerial students would be
required to travel to St.Paul, Minn., for two years of training.
The Milwaukee college would have to be enlarged (inadequate
campus) to accommodate students who would normally attend
St.Paul. The traditional objectives of quite a number of institu-
tions (River Forest, Fort Wayne, Oakland, Bronxville, St. Paul,
Winfield) would have to be materially altered. This plan would
involve the change to a four-year junior college program ‘and
curriculum at all of Synod’s educational institutions, because only
in that way could sufficient space be created to absorb the loss
at St. Paul and simultaneously to provide for a greater volume of
ministerial and teacher candidates. Students would be recruited
from Lutheran high schools and encouraged to enroll through a
scholarship subsidy plan. The arrangement would also require
a full co-ordinator of recruitment and of placement. Finally, rather
extensive staff changes would also be required at those institu-
tions which would introduce teacher training into their programs,
and at St. Paul, Minn., of course, serious staff dislocations would
be indicated.

This plan was made available to the two groups previously
mentioned for most detailed study, analysis, and appraisal. The
Board is grateful to the participants in such meetings and agrees
with the findings of a majority that such a proposal would involve
implications of sufficiently grave import to justify abandonment
or significant modification of a proposal of this type.

The consultants in the Racine meetings agreed with the estab-
lished premises that there is a genuine need for more professional
workers and that the introduction of a senior college into the sys-
tem is an imperative necessity. It was agreed also that the pro-
posal itself could produce the graduates required; however, the
following serious objections were made and recognized to be valid:

1. There is insufficient evidence to show that the four year

junior college is an acceptable arrangement in the American
System of education and certainly no evidence to show that