# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S771
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES, AND COLLEGES 78

» ing at one time, but will have to carry on the process piecemeal,
~ as we have done during the past decade.

Request: We respectfully request that for the triennium 1950
to 1953 the sum of $50,000 be allowed for the rehabilitation of the
~ two old south dormitory wings.

Tue Boarp or ContTROL
or CONCORDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE

Pau. L. Kivenper, Secretary

Tue Facutty or CoNcorDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
ArtHur Kiinck, President

'G. Repeated I Request for Additional Professorships to Replace
Some of the Temporary Instructorships at River Forest

(Memorial 130)

Three years ago Concordia Teachers College, River Forest,
* memorialized the synodical convention of 1947 (Proceedings,
f page 73) to allow additional professorships. This request was
F discussed in Committee One, and upon their recommendation,
: Synod took the following action (Proceedings, 1947, page 78):
j “Resolved, That this request for professorships be referred

to the Board for Higher Education for study in the light of

Synod’s action in the matter of ‘Ranking of Professors,’ with

power to act.”

In the meantime we have carried on our program with the

same number of professorships as before. The reasons advanced
in 1947 for additional called professorships Have become more
and more compelling. Our over-all enrollment has increased by
over 60 students. We have progressively decreased our High
School by dropping a class each year so that the final group will
be graduated in a few months. Though the number of teachers
has increased, the faculty-student ratio has became more un-
favorable from year to year as more and more of our students
moved into the College, where the faculty-student ratio is ex-
pected to be higher than in High School. The new faculty mem-
_ bers added have all been on the instructor level. As a result, in
;. some of our fields, instructors are teaching much too great a pro-
- portion of the courses offered. In English, for instance, 3/7 of the
- work is being taught by instructors, in Social Science over 2/3,
;. in Mathematics and Sciences over 2/5, and even in Doctrine the
; major part of the teaching is done by two emeriti.
; After careful consideration of Synod’s teacher-training pro-
*. gram at our college, we have resolved to come to Synod again
: with our urgent request for more members of permanent rank on
4 our teaching staff. We therefore request: