# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S881
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

182 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Exhibit 16 Costs for Plan A
Value of Abandoned Campuses:
Bronxville 0
Edmonton 0
Oakland ow .
Portland
Campus Value Lost (1948 Statistical Yearbook) $2,375,000
Expand Seven Existing Campuses to Double Present ‘
Capacity, Minimum. ses neneen ence snneneneeonenene - 3,500,000
Senior College and Campus 2,750,000
$8,625,000
Recover from Sales wovsteectenentsnceeecennteuananctnneenennneeeeeeeeentcneeecescenunnesseetes - 1,500,000
Net Cost $7,125,000
Plan B

A Study of the Feasibility of Undertaking a Practical Rearrangement
of the Existing System so that a Senior College plus an Adequate
Volume of Professional Personnel Could be Achieved Through
Remodeling and Addition, but Without Closing Schools or Supplying
a New Campus and Constructing an Additional Physical Plant
Although the Board was of the opinion that many great ad-
vantages, such as the opportunity for freedom of choice in location,
arrangement, program, tradition, and development of a senior col-
lege would be irretrievably lost to the present generation by any
course other than building an entirely new college, it still under-
took to examine and to work out the specific and complex detail
of a program which would enable the Church to provide a senior
college plus adequate * production of professional personnel in
the foreseeable future without adding another unit to the existing
system. ,
In studying this possibility of finding a practical solution which
would meet the most urgent of Synod’s capacity and quality re-
quirements without creating prohibitive costs, it became clear
to the Board that progress was virtually impossible as long as this
effort was based on the assumption that the objective was to find
a plan which would answer Synod’s needs in education for an
indefinite future period — perhaps the next century. In fact, it
soon became clear that the educational needs of the Church are
never static and that the present dilemma is in no small measure
the consequence of a failure to undertake such reviews and
subsequent adjustments. at more frequent intervals in the past.

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* This plan recognized, of course, that: it would not be possible,
under any circumstances, to provide for direct, full-term synodical train—
ing of all the parochial school teachers which the available statistics
indicate will be required during the next 30 -years,