# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S232
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258 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

tutions. It would seem therefore to be in the interest
work to recognize the need for flexibility in the policy
housing.

In addition, some of the faculty people who now live in campus:
housing would prefer to buy their own homes or to rent; on the. 3
other hand, some of those who rent would prefer to live on the
campus.

During the past ten years it has not been possible to builg
new houses on any campus. Instead of following its tradition
policy, Synod has been forced by economic conditions to rent off.
campus homes or to buy them.

It is true also that there exists a rather considerable Variation
of practice at the various schools. On some campuses all of the
faculty people, live in synodical housing. On at least one campus
only the president of the college lives on the campus in faculty
housing.

In order to establish the already existing and desirable flexi-
bility as an official synodical policy, the Roard for Higher Education
recommends .

That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to
approve or decline (sale or lease or purchase being subject
to the consent of the Board of Directors of Synod and to the
present Handbook Section 2.791) any of the following local

options recommended by the Board of Control of the insti-

tution involved: :

a. That an equivalent payment for housing or rental furnished
may be included in the direct salary of faculty personnel.

b. That housing may be provided in the form of a separate
payment paid to faculty personnel as the cost of housing.

c. That a long-term sale to faculty people now occupying off-
campus purchased synodical housing is authorized.

d. That the removal of on-campus faculty housing which is
entirely obsolete and which can be shown to be uneconomical
for further use be authorized.

e. That the construction or purchase of multiple units only, for
the purpose of rental to instructors and assistant professors,
be authorized where this can be done as a mutual advantage
to Synod and to the faculty personnel involved.

f. That the present “building and loan” authorizations which
govern present faculty housing operations be made appli-
cable to Paragraphs c, d, and e of this resolution.

It must be understood that in authorizing local options it is not
the intent of Synod to have available faculty campus housing un- |
occupied and, further, that this permissive legislation does not
obviate the possibility of building on-campus housing under the
conditions now obtaining, when local conditions warrant.

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