# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S175
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 173

id be required also to complete a minimum of one sum-
dente ye een assignment to a Lutheran Parochial school and
a 4 uire two years in residence at one of the teachers’ col-
lee in order to qualify for the Bachelor of Science in Educa-
leges

tion degree. Tue Fort Wayne Juntor Coutsce
While it is true that the term “junior college” does not always
te a pre-professional unit in American educational terminology
deno cept, it will be apparent that the concept of a two-year unit
thoroughly established in the American pattern. This is evident

from the fact that the junior college movement is becoming in-_

easing: ular in our country. In 1919 only 52 junior colleges
wore rely popu report of the United States Office of Education.
The enroliment of these institutions totaled only 1,102 students.
By 1945—46 there were 600 junior colleges with an attendance of
300,000. That year California alone had 74, with 120,685 students
enrolled. The most recent report of the American Association of
Junior Colleges shows that the number of these institutions con-
tinues to increase, for the report indicates that there are today 652
junior colleges wih a total enrollment of 446,734. The report of
the President’s Commission contemplates a vast expansion in the
decades ahead of two-year post-high school institutions, to be

It appears, then, that in the long-term outlook, circumstances
which are already evident are combining to make the two-year
pattern a popular and accepted concept to which Synod would be
adapting its own specific requirements if it saw fit to convert from

to carefully investigate the Possibility of using this new regional
development and to avoid duplication in the field,

In some areas of our Church’s educational work the conditions
which originally made it mandatory for Synod to maintain the high

and impressionable age.

In addition, the apparently increasing need for concentration
of synodical effort on the college level adds to the need for care-