# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S971
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 278

stances all such administrative officers will also carry
a partial teaching load. All these administrative offices at
the theological seminaries are to be held only by called
personnel, with the faculty rank of professor.”

ACTION
Upon: recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 24

Wuereas, The introduction of a faculty ranking system until
now applies only to our preparatory institutions and to our teachers’
colleges; and

Wuereas, The 1947 Convention directed the Board for Higher
Education “to study the possibilities of applying similar arrange-
ments to the faculties of the seminaries and to report its findings
and recommendations to the next convention of Synod”; and

Wuereas, A study of the seminary procedures shows that these
schools cannot be best served by a system which is as rigid as
the one obtaining for our preparatory institutions and teachers’
colleges; and

Wuereas, It appears that modified ranking provisions to apply
only to the theological seminaries are advisable; therefore be it

Resolved, That we recommend a new section in the Handbook:
Section 6.52— Members of Teaching Staff at Seminaries; and be
it further

Resolved, That the wording suggested by our Board for Higher
Education (page 271 and page 272) be adopted with the follow-
ing change: ;

In Paragraph “a. Fellows,” line 7, strike the words “Personnel
in this classification” and substitute “Each fellow.”

Handbook Section 6.53
In order to adjust this section so that it will be entirely relevant
to the provisions of revised Section 6.51, the Board for Higher
Education recommends

That the words “and assistant professors” be inserted after
the word “instructors” in line 7 of Section 6.53.

And we recommend further

That the entire last sentence of this section be deleted
since such a reference in this section introduces an irrelevancy
in this section and since this subject is adequately covered in
the new Section 6.56.

And we recommend further

That the words “except Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,”
be deleted.