# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S997
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 299

. ing. The situation will be readily apparent. when we mention, for
- example, that fixed fees for a student at one preparatory college

;.. (not including board or special fees of any type) total $100 an-
nually; at another college these charges total $140. The figures -

quoted will illustrate the general condition. In addition, many
other items are included in the charge made under the classification
“board.”

This situation has a pecular significance in connection with the
G.I. program. Since the Government will pay no benefits for
“room and board,” some of the institutions have had a great deal
of difficulty in adjusting their schedule of charges so that they
could collect the expenses to which Synod was entitled from the
Federal Government.

4 The problem results from the fact that our educational insti-
* tutions have hesitated to use the word “tuition” to designate the
' charges which they make to students. This term is used by Amer-
- ican colleges and universities to indicate, in a rather loose fashion.
;. the general fees which are collected from students and which are
;. not specified for some particular service or student activity (such
;. as health service, athletic fund, student activities ticket, publica-
.. tions, etc.). Many of our institutions have been reluctant also to
use this term in their catalogs, because the tradition of the Church

: has said that professional students pay no “tuition.”

In view of the G.I. situation, and in view of the fact that the
Federal Government is now apparently ready to begin a series of
large appropriations for scholarships and for various forms of
assistance to American colleges, we believe that it would be in
the interest of our work to specifically convey authority to use the
term “tuition” in the college catalogs in order to describe the
charges which are now listed as “educational fees” and through the
use of other terms which are not common in American educational
practice.

Upon the request of one of the teachers’ colleges, the Board
for Higher Education provisionally authorized the use of this term

: J in the college catalog until the time of the 1950 convention.

The Board for Higher Education now recommends

That Synod officially approve the use of the term “tuition”
in the college catalogs in order to describe the charges which
are made to all students to cover the various costs which must
be borne locally by the colleges and seminaries.

We recommend further

That, at the discretion of the institution involved, such list-
ings may or may not include the synodical tuition which is
charged to “general education students” and remitted to Syn-
od’s fiscal office.