# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S993
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 295

We recommend finally

That an appropriation of no less than $4,500 be made
available to the Board for Higher Education in order to de-
fray a part of the costs involved.

ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 21

" Wuereas, One of the cardinal principles involved in seeking
* accreditation is the establishment of the President’s office as the
:.. administrative center of the college; and

a Wuereas, During the last decade 71% of the presidencies of
:. our various colleges and. seminaries will have received new in-
. cumbents; and

é Wuergas, It will be necessary to supply some opportunity for
Fa direct study of the basic principles of administration and of
E practical application of such findings for the men who must
4 administer our colleges and seminaries; therefore be it

Resolved, That we adopt the following recommendation:

1. That authorization be granted to arrange, during one
of the summers of the next triennium, for special courses in
administration, with major emphasis on college administration,
and for special lectures on the North Central Association’s
administrative criteria.

2. That the presidents of Synod’s 14 colleges and semi-
naries be encouraged and urged to participate in such courses
if and when they are made available.

3. That an appropriation of no less than $4,500 be made
available to the Board for Higher Education in order to defray
a part of the costs involved.

Summer Schools

According to the regulations which appear in Handbook Sec-
tion 6.161 d, only the “seminary at St. Louis and the teachers’ col-
leges are authorized to conduct summer schools.” These summer
‘schools are to be conducted “under the direction of the respective
Board of Control and faculty.”
At River Forest a summer schoo] has been conducted annually
since 1932. Seward has served Synod continuously in this way
since 1936. With their programs the teachers’ colleges have been
able to reach many hundreds of students for emergency training,
and they have also, at the same time, carried forward extensive
programs of in-service training for pastors and teachers in such
summer schools. In some cases, members of the faculties at the
theological seminaries have been utilized for these purposes.
Although they are not officially authorized to do so, some of