# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S834
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 187

Synod’s Response

In its Centennial Convention, Synod approved and adopted

,. the Board’s statement on “The Objectives of Ministerial Training”;

5 it authorized all of the proposed administrative adjustments and

;. ordered them printed in its official Handbook; it passed the follow-

5. ing resolution on the senior college:

A. That Synod establish a senior college as an additional unit
in the professional training of ministerial students. (The
term “senior college” is understood to designate the aca-
demic level of the junior and senior years of the standard
American college.)

1. That the present junior college system be retained.

2. That the curriculum of the present junior college and
the proposed senior college be completely articulated
and integrated and that the same degree of co-ordination
be established between the entire college program and
the program at the seminary.

3. That the changes necessary in the present junior college
program to achieve complete articulation and integration
of the junior and senior divisions be authorized.

4. That efforts toward securing regional accreditation of
the ministerial academies and junior colleges be acceler-
ated during the next triennium.

B. That the Board for Higher Education be directed to continue
its study to determine a satisfactory location for the senior
college as well as its organization, curriculum, and plant
requirements,

1. That upon completion of these studies the Board be
directed to formulate plans for the location, organiza-
tion, curriculum, and physical plant of the senior college
and to submit these preliminary plans together with its
recommendations to the synodical convention of 1950.

2. That any costs occasioned by the preparation and pres-
entation of such preliminary plans be approved for
payment as items separate from the regular budget of the
Board for Higher Education.

‘ The Board now places before this convention detailed recom-
-mendations on a reorganization plan and on the senior college
‘proposal. In addition, the Board is now furnishing extensive
E-growth studies which must be basic to any analysis of future supply
and demand estimates and which must, necessarily, condition any
= planning in this field. In a startling fashion these growth studies
; indicate needs from which there is no escape if Synod continues