# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S217
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228 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

6.63. Curricula

“The faculty of each educational institution shal] Construg,
curricula conforming to the synodically recognized ang Dre.
scribed purposes of the institution. Upon approval by the
spective Board of Control, they shall be submitted to the Board
for Higher Education. After study and approval by this Board,
the curricula shall be put into operation.”

Handbook Section 6.11

Concurring in a request from the Board of Directors that the
triennial convocation of all faculty members be deferred unti] some
future date because the treasuries of Synod were low, the
for Higher Education did not convene the synodical faculties qu;;
the year 1949. It is recognized that this action is not in accord with |
the provisions of Handbook Section 6.11; it was dictated, however |
by financial considerations urged by the Board of Directors in |
conformity with its responsibility for a balanced budget and also
by the fact that the very extensive preparations for reorganization
and for the introduction of the senior college made it necessary to
have more than the planned number of meetings with the Advisory |
Council (college presidents) and also with a national committee
appointed by the President of Synod.

In view of the fact that prevailing conditions ought to dictate
the time, the frequency, and the type of such meetings, your Board
recommends that the following words be deleted from Section 6.11:

“During the year preceding the triennial convention of

Synod.”

Your Board recommends further that the following words be
inserted in Section 6.11 in place of the deletion:

“When, in its judgment, the welfare of Synod’s educational
work requires such meetings.”

The entire revised Section 6.11 would then read:

6.11. Meetings with the Faculties

“The Board for Higher Education shall call a meeting of
the faculties of Synod’s educational institutions when, in its
judgment, the welfare of Synod’s educational work requires
such meetings for the purpose of studying, co-ordinating, and
improving the educational policies, standards, procedures, and
curricula of Synod’s educational institutions. No member of
any faculty shall be excused except for valid reasons. The
cost of such meeting, including expenses for travel, room,
board incurred by each person. attending in an official capacity,
shall be paid by Synod.”

Handbook Section 6.13 (New)

“There are occasions on which the best interest of our educa-
tional work requires conferences of regional faculties or of depart-
ments or of administrators in Synod’s colleges. It would be advan-

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tageous to Synod, for example, if authorization were available to
convene the faculties of the teachers’ colleges, or the faculties of
the preparatory institutions, or the faculties of the two theological

inaries. Whenever all the members of Synod’s faculties con-
yene (aS provided in 6.11) in a single location, it is difficult to
effectively meet the real variety of needs and interests which are
represented.

At other times it would be wholesome and efficient if authori-
zation were available to convene deans, or registrars, or business
managers, or teachers of music, or other special groups involved
in specific problems, on a regional or national basis.

Accordingly, the Board for Higher Education recommends the
insertion of a new paragraph into the Handbook, to be numbered
6.13 and to read:

6.13. Other Meetings

“The Board for Higher Education shall be authorized to
convene selected faculties or faculty members or administrators
or other educational personnel for conferences which are in the
mutual interest of the educational program of Synod and the
individual colleges and seminaries. Funds for such purposes
shall be included as estimates in the annual budget proposed

for administrative purposes by the Board for High: ‘
and subject to authorization by the Fiscal Co apron Education

Handbook Section 6.37
The Board for Higher Education recommends that in Section
6.37, Paragraph A, the following words be added after the last
sentence in the present section:

“All matters which, according to synodi i

‘ . ynodical regulati
require the attention of any other agency or officer of Synod
shall be transmitted to the Board for Higher Education, which

Board Shall, when necessary, undertake the proper reference |

of items which Synod has assigned ibili
other boards or officers of Synod.” ‘9 the responsibility of

Handbook Section 6.39

This is a key section singled out by the examiner as conveying
an impression which is contradictory to the principle of unit control
and therefore to Section 6.91, which is considered to be in accord
with “the best American practice.” ,

The difficulty arises from the fact that the Board of Control
seems to be responsible for the same areas which are assigned to
the President’s responsibility in Section 6.91 and from the further
fact that the local Board of Control seems to be directly responsible
to two other synodical boards.

Ultimate responsibility does rest, and should conti
vested, in the Board of Control, but clarity wequites a. statement