# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S216
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226 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

curred by those who attend public high schools; ‘nor is any tuition
paid in the synodical high schools. 7

Another important consideration, in the opinion. of the
is the conviction ,that Lutheran high schools should remain locally
controlled educational agencies. If Synod were to undertake some
type of direct subsidy payment to the school, there would always
be the possibility of requiring some degree of control. It appears
wise to avoid this possibility entirely.

Equally hazardous would be any effort to entice the Lutheran
high schools into continuing to maintain provisions for specialized
training for ministerial or teacher training candidates by making
subsidy payments available on the condition that language spe.
cialties be supplied. The preparation of a very small number of
students for such highly specialized work is already resulting in a
costly and inefficient program of education at those schools which
maintain it. (At St. Louis Lutheran High School it costs $218 per
pupil per year to supply the required additional courses in third-
year Latin, third-year German, and Greek. At Luther Institute in
Chicago the cost of such service is $188 per pupil per year. If this
amount is added to the regular cost of providing required courses
for high school graduation, the total per pupil cost for ministerial
students in these schools exceeds $400 per pupil per year.) ;

From a positive point of view it is important that this proposed
program enables students to elect some work in the fine arts or in
practical arts. Additional units of electives to meet requirements
in English, or social studies, or mathematics, are also available.
There is ample ground to. believe that such additions would add
balance and breadth to the training which is now being given to
high school boys under present synodical requirements.

The Board for Higher Education recommends:
.a. That Synod approve this plan of Lutheran high school
.. scholarships. : ;
..b. That at this time the Board for Higher Education be au-
.?... thorized to make the necessary budget allowances to make
. the plan effective at Fort Wayne, River Forest, Seward, an¢
“the proposed senior college (or the St. Louis seminary), and
to validate vouchers for-payment directly to the school upon
presentation of properly certified statements. by the local
.. administration. a a aa
c. That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to estab-
lish and approve any necessary curricular changes involved

-- at the Fort Wayne Junior College, .0 9.)

-d. That this plan becéme effective on June-1, 1951, so that it
may. be applied to students entering the listed colleges it
September, 1951. - wok fo : “

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 227

Section F. Recommendations on Administrative
Relations

Curriculum Development
(Sections 6.07¢ and 6.63)

Educators agree that sound principles of curriculum develop-
ment require that curricula be developed by the faculties involved
In synodical institutions, Synod will wish to prescribe. the objec-
tives which are to be reached in a given institution and will then
expect the faculty involved to develop appropriate curricula in co-
operation with the Board for Higher Education. In actual practice
this procedure has been followed, but the wording in some
of the Handbook does not make this procedure entirely clear.

It would be wholesome also if conditions could be establish d
under which the Board for Higher Education would be authorized
in the interim between Synods, to undertake necessary curricul
changes. For example, questions relating to the reduction of re
quirements of foreign languages at the high school level or th ine
troduction of public speaking into the curricula would be items of
immediate concern in connection with the experimental approa ch
involved in the recommendations on reorganization. Problems con
nected wi the proposed accreditation at Seward would also be

In the course of its experiences with the accreditation
at River Forest the Board was handicapped at times b th 2 i ‘ck
of a clear definition of its relation to the matter of currieul nana
it was embarrassed by the wording of those Handbook sections
which seemed to indicate that curricula were imposed fact ties
without their consent. . On Taeulties

In order that these sections may correctly reflect that actual

recommends that Senn of Synod, the Board for Higher Education
a tion 6.
be substituted: ection 6.07 e be deleted and that the following

6.07 ¢c

And we recommend furth : i
that the following me subetrtnnd that Section 6.63 be deleted and

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