# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S915
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 217

liminary adjustments now so that the stage is set for progress
toward the objective. Policies established today will achieve no
significant outcomes for a period of ten years.

4s: . Having, therefore, a clear sense of the direction in which we
‘nust go, a conviction that our need is real, and the mathematical
idence that immediate action is required to achieve desirable
results a decade hence, there remains the need for a decision on
initiating a program which will eventually lead us to the desired

Cals.

, Definition and Curricular Aims of the Senior College

my In its Centennial Convention, Synod instructed the Board for
;.. Higher Education to proceed with studies and plans for the intro-
duction of the senior college. The convention resolved: “That
Synod establish a senior college as an additional unit in the pro-
fessional training of ministerial students. (The term senior col-
lege is understood to designate the academic level of the junior
and senior years of the standard American college.)” In addition,
the convention decided that the present system of colleges should
ke retained, but that the changes necessary in the present junior
college program to achieve complete articulation and integration
the two divisions are authorized.

With regard to the integration involved, the resolution states
further: “That the curriculum of the present junior college and
the proposed senior college be completely articulated and inte-
grated and that the same degree of co-ordination be established
~ between the entire college program and the program at the sem-

inary.”
q Finally, it was specifically decided that upon completion of
f. these studies the Board is directed to formulate plans for the loca-
tion, organization, curriculum, and physical plant of the senior
college and to submit these preliminary plans, together with its
recommendations, to the synodical convention of 1950.

Since it is necessary to know the nature and the aim of a proj-

ect before one can have an intelligent concept of its desirability
* or worth, we present, first, a preliminary outline of the aims and
.’ the principal areas of subject matter in terms of which a senior
college curriculum might be constructed.
' Some more or less ‘concrete, though tentative, conception of
the aims and content of such a curriculum is indispensable, also,
for an estimate of the physical and the administrative organization
which a senior college might require. The content of the curric-
ulum must, of course, be controlled chiefly by its aims or objec-
tives. The curriculum which is finally adopted must, therefore,
emerge from a juncture of a number of points of view and must
be the product, not of one, but of a group of minds.