# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S202
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

existing buildings, as well as of the selection of
architect; it being understood that the ultimate respon. °
sibility for all contractual aspects of either new con.

struction or the alteration of existing plant is Solely thay
of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors sha} “

be expected, however, to employ the local Board of
Control (explained below) as its agency in any construc.
tion or alteration project, but neither the Board of Direc.
tors nor the local Board of Control may execute or modify
any construction plans without the expressed approval
of the Board for Higher Education.

. The appointment of an interim local Board of Control
with the concurrence of the Board of Directors and the
President and Vice-Presidents of Synod and the Presi-
dent of the District in which the senior college is to be
located. It is to be understood that this local Board of
Control is to serve by appointment until the second
synodical convention after its appointment, when it, with
other candidates, is to submit to the process of election.
It is further recommended that this interim Board of
Control be constituted and function in the manner
prescribed by the By-Laws of Synod for Boards of Con-
trol generally, except that this interim Board shall in-
clude also one Vice-President of Synod appointed by the
President of Synod, and except that it, for the interim
period, shall with the President of the senior college be
directly responsible to the Board for Higher Education
in all matters other than those which are expressly stated
herein to be within the province of the Board of Directors,

. The construction of the curriculum with the aid of a
special technical committee (including, of course, repre-
sentation from the St. Louis seminary) appointed by the
Board for Higher Education. It is proposed that the
Board for Higher Education be empowered to develop

' the initial curriculum of the senior college and to intro-
duce the curriculum, but that it be required to submit
the curriculum for approval to the next synodical con-
vention following the official opening of the senior college.

. The major administrative and operational plans and the
major organizational arrangements within the institution.

It is proposed that for the period during which the -

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arrangements are initiated or in any way implemented.
The detail to which this provision should be carried out
should be left to the discretion of the Board for Higher
Education.

2. That the relative positions and functions of the Board for

Higher Education, the Board of Directors, and the local
Board of Control as outlined in the immediately preceding
Section (1) be considered to be in effect immediately upon
the approval of these recommendations by the convention
of 1950 and that they be continued in effect until the second
convention following the year in which the senior college
enrolls its first entering class. At that time the Board for
Higher Education shall be expected to recommend subse-
quent control arrangements.

. That the following temporary policies be approved:

A. Elections. — It is recommended that the election and
calling of the President, of the Dean of Men, and of all
called members of the faculty be performed in the man-
ner prescribed by the By-Laws of Synod, except that for
the period extending from the approval of this recom-
mendation by the convention of 1950 through the first
three years of actual operation of the senior college, the
Electors shall be augmented by one additional member
of the Board for Higher Education with one vote; and
with the further exception that the Vice-President of
Synod who is a member of the temporary Board of Con-
trol of the senior college shall also have one vote.

B. Appointments. —It is proposed that for the Period of
time designated in the immediately preceding Sec-
tion (A), all plans for appointments to. administrative
or teaching positions be approved by the Board for Higher
Education as well as the actual appointments.

C. Salaries.—It is recommended that the provisions of

Handbook Section 6.57 be applied in the procedure of
determining all salaries at the senior college.

Budgets

It is expected that the senior college should conform.as quickly
easible to the budgetary procedures which are required of all
other institutions. Nevertheless it must be anticipated that during

interim-appointed local Board of Control is in office all:
significant plans and contemplated organizational ar- *
rangements be ‘submitted by the President to the Board x
for Higher Education for approval before such plans or *|

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