# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S236
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the nature and activities of the student aid pro
collect data at regular intervals, to prepare studies and
submit information to the Districts and colleges which wouny
lead to uniformity of policies and standardization of pra d
tice. Periodic conferences of District student aid adri
trators should be called by this agency for a discussion of
mutual problems. °

b. Recommended Policies
1) The official name of the program of District financial
assistance to professional students of the Church ought to
be: The Student Aid Fund.
2) The full extent of subsidy, within a maximum to be
prescribed, should be awarded only to students who have
reached the college level.
3) Assistance to high school students ought to be in amounts
proportionate to their level of advancement in the course of
training. A suggested arrangement would be: one fourth of
the maximum for each of the first two years of high school,
one half of the maximum for each of the last two years of
high school.
4) Subsidy should be available to qualified men students
preparing to become pastors, teachers, or medical mission-
aries. Graduate theological or teacher-training students
preparing themselves for church work should also be
eligible for aid.
5) Every applicant for assistance should be held to meet
a minimum scholarship standard, such as B—. The colleges
would be responsible for the examination and approval of
the scholarship qualifications.
6) Every applicant for assistance should meet established
criteria of financial need. The District committee would
develop techniques for the determination of need in the
individual cases.
7) The principal condition of the award should be that the
recipient enter the service of the Church. Failure to do so
for a period of time satisfactory to the Districts should re-
quire repayment of the grant. Satisfactory grade, deport-
ment, and character reports shall be further required of
supported students. Students should not be held to work
off their grants in special service to the institution.
8) Grants should be paid directly to the school attended
by subsidized students and the amount should vary with
the costs at the several institutions. Subsidy should not be
designated for “board and room” but for “general fees.”
9) Districts should make available unexpended funds to
applicants from other Districts where funds are exhausted
after September 1 of each year.

c. Recommended Action
The Board for Higher Education recommends: .

That Synod supplement the undergraduate Student Aid
Funds of the Districts by the establishment of a $10,000

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cholarship fund to assist qualified foreign students in Synod’s
édlleges and seminaries, to assist the sons and daughters of
mod's foreign missionaries if they qualify for aid, and to
ye ;. qualified persons in the pursuit of graduate studies
1 will be of direct benefit to the Church in its educa-
al program.

‘That such a Synodical Scholarship Fund be accumulated
viting each District of Synod to budget and to remit $250
$500, as the District may elect, to Synod’s Treasurer during
.course of the District’s next fiscal year and in each sub-
ent year. :
wy recommend further
.", That the Board for Higher Education be authorized t
“#* gdminister such scholarship funds on the basis of criteria
i ‘which it shal! Prepare and which shall become effective only
upon approval o e€ synodical Praesidium and istri
‘ Presi dents of Synod. and the District
" We recommend further
_., That at an early opportunity, preferably at a time when it
is meeting with its Advisory Council (college presidents) "the
“Board for Fisher Education invite the District aid officers to
‘eonter on these and other proposals for the im
: co-ordination of all student assistance efforts, provement and
-We recommend finally
That the costs of any such conference be shared h
the Districts will defray the transportation expenses of thee
representatives, while the Board for Higher Education is
authorized to charge room and board Costs to its budget for
special conferences as provided in Handbook Section 6.13

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Tre Boarp ror HicHErR Epucation
Henry Grueser, Chairman
O. P. KRETZMANN, Secretary
Epcar BUENGER
Watter Gast .
Wa ter Goetscu
S. J. Rora
Martin WALKER
Martin J. Nees, Executive Secretary

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