# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S927
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 229

which the official closing date of the second year of opera-
‘tion occurs.

“4, The calling of all men who are called for service in the
’ first and second years of operation, to the initial rank of
Associate Professor, and the deferment of any advances in
rank and of any calls to a full professorship until after the
second year of operation.

‘Service Staff
It is impossible to indicate at this time what numbers and
kinds of service personnel may be needed for maintenance, food

tive staff during the first two years of operation, and authority for
engagement of these, as needed, is suggested.

© Control Arrangements and Procedures

As rapidly as possible the control of the senior college should
be brought into conformity with the theory and the practice of
ontrol which is characteristically applied to all of Synod’s edu-
cational institutions. It must be acknowledged, however, that for
practical reasons these conventional control arrangements must in
this particular case be applied gradually and that they can be
brought into conformity with the general pattern only after a brief
terim period during which a modified control procedure must
be observed.

The senior college is to be a new ingredient in Synod’s educa-
nal system; and it is to be one which fhust be inserted, not at
e beginning of the educational process, but at its upper levels.
Moreover, the introduction and successful initiation of a senior
college and the effective integration of its functions with the exist-
ing educational levels which precede and follow it, constitute a
venture with which Synod has had no experience and which de-
mands an unusual amount of technical competence.

; Finally, and most important, the whole value of the senior
F college will depend upon the extent to which its operation and
E administration will give practical expression to the particular edu-
* cational objectives and principles which have led our Synod to the
decision to establish such a college.

x At the outset, therefore, and for a few years after the first
F opening of its doors, it will be necessary to guide the development
FE of the new senior college with a degree of direct synodical help
- and supervision which will no longer be necessary after it has
= become functionally well established. During the critical years of
its initiation into our educational system it is vitally important that