# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S772
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

74 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

1. Five Additional Associate Professorships

In 1947 we asked Synod for seven additional associate profes=
sorships. In view of the new rank of assistant professor, now pro-

posed by the Board for Higher Education, we have reduced our . #

request to five associate professorships, to be distributed through-
out all of our fields with emphasis on those where a very high
percentage of the teaching is being done by instructors. Especially
in Religion, we feel that an additional associate professorship is
very urgent. :

At the same time we propose that five of our associate pro-
fessorships be converted into full professorships, thus leaving us
fifteen associate professorships and ten professorships, a total of
twenty-five called men.

2. Five New Assistant Professorships

We assume that Synod will create the new rank of assistant
professor as proposed by the Board for Higher Education. We feel
that this rank will be more satisfactory for our college than the
instructorships have. been. As a four-year college we cannot al-
ways use very fine men whose academic qualifications might per-
mit them to serve in a synodical high school or junior college.
In our school such teachers must have a Master’s degree or its
equivalent in each field in which they are to teach. We prefer to
call in men from the field. Ordinarily such men have families,
and it has been difficult, if not’ altogether impossible, to secure
them with the salary and tenure arrangements of an instructor-
ship. We therefore respectfully request permission to call in five
such assistant professors, or advance present instructors to this
rank,

3. Additional Instructorships as Needed

Since the instructorship offers a’ two-year tenure and will
ordinarily be filled by men recently graduated from our synod-
ical schools, we feel that we can use several men on this level
and thus balance our teaching load and meet new or changed
needs as. they arise. According to our present estimates, if we keep
the faculty-student ratio the same next year as we have it this
year, and we certainly dare not reduce it, ‘we shall need from

two to five of these instructors, depending on our enrollment, od

Note on Over-All Manpower
Since men of all ranks carry the same standard teaching load,
the over-all number of teachers needed will be the same whether
the above proposals are granted or not. The over-all cost will be