# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S907
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES , 209

4 -the basis of a two-year teacher training program plus practice
_ teaching. The State of Kansas issues certificates on this basis and

has approved St. John’s College for such a program, The school
has more than 30 years’ experience in this work.

In the event that it should become desirable to reduce the
volume of teacher candidates, it is suggested that the Winfield
college be returned to a pre-teacher training status and that the
graduates be required to complete (at Seward or River Forest)
the work indicated under the recommendations for Oakland, for
St.Paul, and for Bronxville. We recommend that Synod’s Board
for Higher Education be authorized to undertake such adjustments
if conditions warrant the action. .

All placement policies, of course, for the terminal program
at Winfield, Kans., would conform to the existing or revised reg-
ulations which Synod has for the placement of teacher candidates,

St. John’s at Winfield would then be the only other synodical
institution (besides River Forest and Seward) which would offer
a terminal program in teacher training.

8. Milwaukee, Wis.

9. Concordia, Mo.

With regard to the institutions at Milwaukee, Wis., and at
Concordia, Mo., the Board for Higher Education recommends that
no adjustments be undertaken at this time, but that they continue
their six-year program and curriculum substantially as they are
now being conducted. The experimentation on the various cam-
puses may indicate that the institutions should make later adjust-
ments, but for the present it is felt that they should be continued
without change. ;

At these institutions, and at all others, the high school depart-
ments will continue their present emphasis on recruitment and
training of prospective teacher candidates.

10. Edmonton, Alberta

This is Synod’s only Canadian school. Its development re-
quires full recognition of the fact that it represents special objec-
tives and that it should not automatically be assumed to require
identical arrangements as these are applied to other colleges. At
present this school operates a five-year program and is fully ac-
credited to the Provincial University located in Edmonton. All

 _ staff members have the required permanent teaching certificates.

By the grace of God the school is extremely well located in the
center of one of Canada’s most active expansions. Enrollment is
at overcapacity, an energetic and well-planned campaign for ex-
pansion funds is in progress at this writing, and Synod and the