# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S961
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 263

The entire revised Section 6.11 would then read:

“6.11 Meetings with the Faculties
“The Board for Higher Education shall call a meeting of

judgment, the welfare of Synod’s educational work requires
such meetings for the purpose of studying, co-ordinating, and
improving the educational policies, standards, procedures, and
curricula of Synod’s educational institutions. No member of
any faculty shall be excused except for valid reasons. The
cost of such meeting, including expenses for travel, room, and
board incurred by each person attending in an official capacity,
shall be paid by Synod.”
ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 8
: Wuereas, It is considered desirable that the Board for Higher
4 Education be granted a certain flexibility in calling meetings with
g the faculties; therefore be it
3 Resolved, That the following words be deleted from Sec-
F tion 6.11:
a “during the year preceding the triennial convention of Synod”;
and be it further
qi Resolved, That the following words be inserted in Section 6.11
4 in place of the deletion:

“when, in its judgment, the welfare of Synod’s educational
work requires such meetings.”

The entire revised Section 6.11 would then read:

“6.11 Meetings with the Faculties .

“The Board for Higher Education shall call a meeting of
the faculties of Synod’s educational institutions when, in its
judgment, the welfare of Synod’s educational work requires
such meetings for the purpose of studying, co-ordinating, and
improving the educational policies, standards, procedures, and
curricula of Synod’s educational institutions. No member of
any faculty shall be excused except for valid reasons. The
cost of such meeting, including expenses for travel, room, and
board incurred by each person attending in an official capacity,
shall be paid by Synod.”

Handbook Section 6.13 (New)

There are occasions on which the best interest of our educa-
tional work requires conferences of regional faculties or of depart-
ments or of administrators in Synod’s colleges. It would be advan-
tageous to Synod, for example, if authorization were available to
convene the faculties of the teachers’ colleges, or the faculties of
the preparatory institutions, or the faculties of the two theological
seminaries. Whenever all the members of Synod’s faculties con-

the faculties of Synod’s educational institutions when, in its |