# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S963
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 265

“All matters which acccording to synodical regulations re-
quire the attention of any other agency or officers of Synod
shall be transmitted to the Board for Higher Education, which
Board shall, when necessary, undertake the proper reference
of items which Synod has assigned to the responsibility of
other boards or officers of Synod.”

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 10

Wauereas, The line of communication to be followed by the
Board of Control of our various educational institutions in dealing
:. with other synodical agencies should be clearly defined; therefore
' be it
Resolved, That the following words be added to Section 6.37 a:
“All matters which acccording to synodical regulations re-
quire the attention of any board, agency, or officer of Synod
shall be submitted to the Board for Higher Education for
reference to the appropriate board, agency, or officer.”

Handbook Section 6.39

: This is a key section singled out by the examiner as conveying
* an impression which is contradictory to the principle of unit control,
and therefore to Section 6.91, which is considered to be in accord
_ with “the best American practice.”
The difficulty arises from the fact that the Board of Control
seems to be responsible for the same areas which are assigned to
the President’s responsibility in Section 6.91 and from the further
fact that the local Board of Control seems to be directly responsible
to two other synodical boards.

Ultimate responsibility does rest, and should continue to be
vested, in the Board of Control, but clarity requires a statement
that the responsibility is to be discharged (as is now the case)
through the executive officer (not always personally) of the Board
and the institution.

The Board for Higher Education recommends, therefore, the
following changes in Section 6.39:

In Section 6.39a, line 2, that the word “prescribed” be
deleted and the word “approved” be substituted.

In Section 6.39 b, that in lines 1 and 2 the following words
be deleted “to the Board of Directors of Synod.”

In Section 6.39 d, that in lines 4 and 5 of the paragraph the
following words be deleted: “The Board of Directors of Synod
in conjunction with.”

In Section 6.39f, that the entire Paragraph f be deleted

for the reason that this section contradicts the budgetary con-
trol section and also contradicts, in part, Section 6.147. We note