# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S932
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234 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

tion (A), all plans for appSintments to administrative
or teaching positions be approved by the Board for Higherg
Education as well as the actual appointments. .

Budgets 4

It is expected that the senior college should conform as quickly .4

as feasible to the budgetary procedures which are required of all 3

other institutions. Nevertheless it must be anticipated that during 4

the preparatory stages immediately following the convention of 4

1950 and during the first two years of operation it may prove to be 4

impossible to submit complete and detailed budgets to the Fiscal 4

Conference. It is recommended therefore that, for the period of %

time just designated, the Board for Higher Education be charged x

with primary responsibility for the preparation of the budgets of 4

the senior college, acting in conference with the President and the.

local Board of Control, and transmitting these budgets to the Board 3
of Directors for submission to the Fiscal Conference. It is further +
recommended that during this period and in view of the diffi-.,;
culties of forecasting expenditures and incomes of the senior col-::#
lege, the Board for Higher Education be permitted, if necessary,
to incorporate in the senior college budgets relatively large re- 3
quests for unassigned appropriations, ‘separate from and above the-@
usual contingency provisions. It is to be understood, however, thatiig
‘no commitments may be made against such unassigned appro-
priations except by the expressed approval of both the Board for
Higher Education and the Board of Directors. 24

Location __ a

During its protracted studies of the problems related to the 4
establishment of a senior college, the Board gave detailed and.
repeated attention to the question of location. It is apparent that: ms
at any proposed location four aspects of the problem deserve critical “*
study: 1. educational, 2. synodical, 3. geographical, 4. financial. i
In addition to making its own explorations, the Board also‘
submitted tentative recommendations for appraisal and discussion.
to its Advisory Council and to the Special Committee which Presi-
dent Behnken appointed at the request of the Fiscal Conference.
Major attention has been focused upon four possible locations: 3
Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and St.Paul. The geographical rela-—
tionship which these locations have to the total area of the United |
States and to the location of Synod’s present colleges and sem-:"
inaries is illustrated in Exhibit 12 (pages 232—233).