# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S214
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222 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

enter the seminary in St.Louis at the time when the
senior college is prepared to begin its operations, to enter
the senior college instead of the seminary.

g. That Synod recognize that the introduction of the Senior

- college will materially affect the operation of the sem;
in St. Louis with the removal from it of one year of in.’
struction. This change will raise problems of curriculum,
faculty, and budget adjustments within the seminary. In
large measure these problems can be anticipated only in
their broadest features. It is recommended therefore that
the Board for Higher Education be authorized and
directed, in conjunction with the seminary, to work out
the necessary adjustments in a manner which will minj.
mize confusion and inconvenience to the institution and tg
individuals. It is understood, of course, that the security
of the call will not be qualified.

8. That the Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of
the Board for Higher Education, be authorized and directed
to release the necessary funds to projects which were orig.
inally listed in the “Building for Tomorrow” collection, to
reorganization projects, and to projects approved by this
convention as a result of requests made under the provisions
of Handbook Section 6.147. Such projects are to be under-
taken only if, as, and when the necessary funds are avail-
able.

Section E. Integration of Lutheran High Schools

In its Centennial Convention, Synod adopted the following
directive: ;

“That the Board for Higher Education be directed to study the
possibility of developing a subsidy arrangement with the Lutheran
high school for the production of acceptable candidates for ma-
triculation at freshman college levels of our colleges at River Forest
and Seward and to report its conclusions to the next convention of

Synod.” (Memorial 127—Resolution 7, Official Proceedings, 1947.)
Since their founding our Lutheran high schools have been -

a recruitment source for students for our seminaries and teachers
colleges. In connection with the suggested elimination of the high
school departments of our teachers colleges, the Centennial Con-
vention gave attention to the problem of recruiting more Lutheran

high school students for professional service in the Church. It was .
felt that some kind of subsidy arrangement would be helpful in °
implementing this proposal. In recognition of the proposal to ex-
periment with the elimination of the high school division at Fort ®
Wayne, the Board’s recommendation expands the application

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such a plan to include students for the ministerial
college at that location. al preparatory
While a direct subsidy to Lutheran high schools in ratio to the
number of professional students enrolled would be a simple plan
the committee asked to study this directive also considered several
other possibilities. These include:
1. A subsidy which would refund to the student the tuiti
has paid to a Lutheran high school; e tuition he
2. A refund to the student on the basis of hi ;
to the Church; of his actual service
3. Subsidizing a student while he is att, di
high school. ending a Lutheran

After careful consideration of these several pl i
procedure is recommended: Plans the following
1, Any program of subsidy by Synod for the r i
ecruitm
acceptable students from Lutheran high schools for matric.
ulation at the freshman college level in our synodically
controlled institutions shall apply equall inisteri
teacher candidates. 7 equa’y to ministerial and

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the direction of general education
‘ ; rather than professional
education during the high school years, Admission require

fore be expected to be based on competency in the areas of
general education as specified by the respective State and
regional accrediting agencies. In the case of ministerial
stadents a Preseauisite of two years of Latin and two years
fe) rman shall be incl

oro included as part of the general education

shall be paid directly to the college enrolling the student
and shall be credited to the student’s account. The annual
scholarship payment shall extend for as many years as the
student has paid tuition in a Lutheran high school. Gradua-

on from a Lutheran high school shall not constitute a

guarantee of automatic acceptance in a synodical college. -

The prevailing admission s
tandards as i
quota considerations will apply. well 88 eapactty and
4, From nunities supporting Lutheran high schools contribute
one to two thirds of the total fe) i
two perating cost
these schools. ‘This is their contribution to “building the

. It is apparent that our Preparatory schools are movin g in’

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