# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S902
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

204 ; . SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

It is recommended further that this college be authorized to.
enroll male students in pre-teacher training courses. They would,

of course, require two years in residence at one of the teacher -
training colleges in order to qualify for the Bachelor of Science 4

in Education degree. Necessary integration of courses for this
arrangement has already been worked out with the Seward
Concordia.

It is apparent that increasing numbers of ministerial and male
teacher training candidates should be recruited from these rapidly
growing areas in the Church if we are to have the manpower
which fully understands the background and the environments in
which the Lord’s work is to be done. After half a century of
high school operation, it would seem appropriate to gradually raise
the level of educational offerings in a growing area like the
Northwest.

Some staff adjustments will be required, but these are not
formidable in cost (estimated at $5,000). If a junior college ex-
periment can be set up for an investment of that size, it certainly
seems that the experiment should be undertaken. Assuming the
co-operation of the local administration can be secured, only good
may be expected from an attempt to observe this educational ex-
periment as it works out in practice over a period of years.

3. Austin, Tex. :

The Board for Higher Education proposes to duplicate the
Portland arrangements at Austin, Tex., actual introduction of the
program to be subject to the prior consent and request of the local
administration. The industrial, educational, and synodical develop-
ments in the Southwest are very similar in many respects to de-
velopments in the Northwest. In addition, the factor of possible
use of the Houston Lutheran high school should be recognized.
At present this school actually teaches only the freshman and.
sophomore high school years, and since a considerable part of the
Austin college student body normally comes from the Houston
area, it would seem entirely natural that Synod abandon the fresh-
man and sophomore high school years at this institution and con-
centrate its efforts on the upper level. Many Texas cities are well
advanced, also, in the development of the 6—3—3 pattern of ele-
mentary and secondary education. This factor should contribute
to successful operation of a four-year junior college.

The Austin institution needs an administration building (has
none at present), but funds for this purpose have already been
allocated under the “Building for Tomorrow” collection. The school
must have adequate teaching facilities, in any event, if it is to
operate a proper program of ministerial training at any level.