# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S900
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

. also be required during the junior college work. It is understood

202 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

fore the first graduates would be ready. It should be noted also
that it will probably not be possible to begin immediately to pro-
duce 50 additional graduates, nor is it desirable. The total in-
crease will be required, according to our statistical studies, during 4
the decade 1960—1970, and by that time it appears feasible to set-
up a junior college at Fort Wayne with 175 students coming into
the institution from the various Lutheran high schools which sur-
round it,

In the reduction process it will, of course, be necessary to
have due regard for the welfare of staff members who will no
longer be required at this institution. Some of the present .staff
members may not have the necessary academic requirements for
junior college teaching or for teacher training work and may pre-
fer to serve in the parish ministry rather than to begin the long~
process of acquiring the necessary qualifications for accreditation.
Such staff members should certainly be continued under the synod-
ical protection until such time when they have made satisfactory
transfers to other institutions or to parish work.

Cottece CurricuLum Must Be CHANGED

As a final adjustment it should be mentioned that the curric-.
ulum of the Lutheran high schools should not be expected to fur-
nish students who have the heavy language requirements currently
demanded by synodical colleges. It is suggested, therefore, that
for the present the Fort Wayne junior college curriculum be the
only one that is adjusted so that students from regular high schools
may enter without academic penalties. This would mean that the
students who enter the college freshman year at Fort Wayne would
be required to furnish among their prerequisites two years of Latin |
and two years of German or their equivalents. The study of Greek”:
would begin in the freshman college year and would concentrate;
as soon as possible, on New Testament Greek. An intensive course -
of Greek instruction would be set up. Additional German would

that the Fort Wayne faculty, and any necessary consultants, would
work out a curriculum under the direction of the Board for Higher
Education and that this Board would authorize the introduction’#
of a curriculum which it believes would satisfy the requirements ‘4
of the experiment. ae:

It shoud be relatively simple to examine the outcomes of in-.4
struction under this curriculum on the basis of .actual results’;
achieved by the students who enter St. Louis after this type of 4
training. It is recommended that the Board for Higher Education o ;
arrange for such comparative studies of the scholastic records made #
on the seminary level.

To attempt to apply this scheme wholesale to all our institp

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