# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S183
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 181

iculum at St.Paul. The offerings of this institution would be
curriculum men and women. Women students who receive a two-
availabe ne g at St.Paul would be required to complete
year

minimum of one summer session, with Practice teaching, in
a

idence at Seward or at River Forest in order to qualify for:
resi

St Paul and Minneapolis Lutheran schools in the program of
practice teaching, and the Board for Higher Education recom-

The St. Paul program is Proposed in order to Secure an appre-
ciably increased volume of, primarily, women pre-teacher train-
ing “graduates” at an early date. (For startling evidence of the
tremendous growth of the use of women teachers in Synod be-
tween 1938 and 1948, see Exhibit » Page 182.) Since the St -Paul
institution is the only synodica] institution in which vacant space

Although the school has had some experience with emergency
teacher training programs (two summers , it would be planned to
establish the new Program with the help of the River Forest col-
lege. This might mean that a staff member would be transferred
to St. Paul in order to serve on the St. Paul college faculty as,
Possibly, dean of the school of education.

The fact that the St. Paul institution is scheduled to receive
a library from the “Building for Tomorrow” collection and a phys-
ical education building from the District (memorial building) is
another favorable factor. Relationships with the University of

innesota are also well established. Minor staff and equipment
additions would be necessary.

Under these circumstances it appears that the school] could
absorb an additional 60 to 79 students, could set up the program

Operate it with a minimum of disruption of the present six-
year program for ministerial students,

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