# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S220
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

beyond the second year, for fellows. Personnel in
classification shall be placed under the direct supervis;
of an individual professor and shall at the same time mn
enrolled as resident students in the graduate school. P
sonnel in this classification shall not participate in facult ~
meetings, nor shall such personnel hold any administrati”.
office in the institution. ve
Instructors: They shall be appointed by the Board of Con.
trol. Such appointment shall be for two-year terms and

. may be renewed in the manner prescribed for the origi

appointment. Whenever an appointment to an instructop
ship is contemplated, the president of the institution 4.)
make the recommendation to the Board of Control; how.
ever, at a time sufficiently prior to final notification of
appointment, the names and qualifications of persons pro.
posed for appointment to seminary instructorships shall he
submitted to the entire membership of the electoral bo

as constituted in Handbook Section 6.101, so that there will
be an opportunity for such members to express any pos-
sible dissent. There shall be no restriction on the number
of reappointments which may be offered to an instructor.
however, if reappointment is not contemplated, the Board
of Control shall so notify the instructor six months prior
to the expiration of the current appointment. Instructor
shall be held to attend regular faculty meetings as advisory
members upon the call of the president. They shall not
be entitled to vote.

. Special Lecturers: They shall be appointed for specified

series of lectures or as assistants in specified courses by
the Board of Control upon recommendation of the president.
The original appointment shall not exceed one semester in
tenure and may be renewed only once. Extension of tenure
beyond a total of two semesters shall require the prior
consent of the Board for Higher Education. Special lecturers

' shall be ranked as visiting instructors and shall not, accord-

“d.

' ingly, participate in faculty meetings or in any administra-

tive activity.

Professors: They shall be nominated, elected, and called
in accordance with the synodical regulations governing
nomination, election, and calling of professors as prescribed
in Section E of the Handbook, under the title ‘Elections’

. At the theological seminaries the following administrative

positions may be created and filled by the local Board of
Control with the prior consent of the Board for Higher
Education: academic dean, dean of men, dean of the
graduate school, dean of the school of missions, dean of
correspondence school, registrar (if he functions as admis-
sions officer), librarian, and placement officer. Appoint-
ments to these executive positions are to be made or
terminated by the Board of Control upon recommendation

of the president of the institution. Under ordinary circum |

- stances all such administrative officers will also carry

a partial teaching load. All these administrative offices at
the theological seminaries are to be held only by called
personnel, with the faculty rank of professor.”

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 235

- Handbook Section 6.53

In order to adjust this section so that it will be entirely relevant
to the provisions of revised Section 6.51, the Board for Higher
Education recommends

That the words “and assistant professors” be j
the word “instructors” in line 7 of Section 653 st

- And we recommend further

That the entire last sentence of this i
A ; section be
since such a reference in this section introduces an reclonnted
in this section and since this subject is adequately covered in
the new Section 6.56. m

And we recommend further

That th & . .
he deleted. e words “except Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,”

And we recommend finally

That, in order to clarify the iti i
Position of inst
assistant professors, who are classified as members. of the

teaching staff, but not, technically, as members of the “faculty,”
>

a situation which has caused some confusion in the adminis

- tration of our institutions during the past triennium, the fol
; -

lowing words be added to Section 6.53 of synodical Handbook:

“In matters relating to doctrine or e i
stablishm: i
only the called members ‘act a faculty and adminisiretie ee
entitied to vote. In all other matters, involvi icati
policy to current conditions, all ranked. full-tine pecten oF
the teaching staff shall be entitled to vote.” ens ©

that the entire revised section 6.53 will read:
6.53. Members of Faculty

“The faculty of each educational instituti

ut.
be composed of the president of the institution, fhe aed shall
associate professors, and all those administrative officials who
are called by the Board of Control in accordance with the

Handbook Section 6.57

In order to make the provisions of this section entirely relevant

to the changes made in Secti
tion recommends in Section 6.51, the Board for Higher Educa~

That the words “pro: i
. professors, associate rofess i
tors, and assistants, and other officers” be deleted ‘and that