# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1002
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

304 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 4

6. The policy creates a situation which is a very frequent.¢
of difficulty in connection with the synodical retire
policy. - ot

a system of 14 geographically scattered and variously typed i
tutions. It would seem therefore to be in the interest of Synd
work to recognize the need for flexibility in the policy on fac
housing. ,
In addition, some of the faculty people who now live in cam;
housing would prefer to buy their own homes or to rent; on
other hand, some of those who rent would prefer to live on’
campus. , us
During the past ten years it has not been possible to k
new houses on any campus. Instead of following its: traditi
policy, Synod has been forced by economic conditions to rent
campus homes or to buy them. i
It is true also that there exists a rather considerable varia
of practice at the various schools. On some campuses all of
faculty people live in synodical housing. On at least one camp
only the president of the college lives on the campus in facul
housing. , E
In order to establish the already existing and desirable flex
bility as an official synodical policy, the Board for Higher Educati
recommends 4
That the Board for Higher Education be authorized; 4g
approve or decline (sale or lease or purchase being subje
to the consent of the Board of Directors of Synod and to the
present Handbook Section 2.791) any of the following lo

options recommended by the Board of Control of the insti
tution involved:

a, That an equivalent payment for housing or rental furnished
may be included in the direct salary of faculty personnel."

b. That housing may be provided in the form of a separate
payment paid to faculty personnel as the cost of housing,

c. That a long-term sale to faculty people now occupying off-
campus purchased synodical housing is authorized.
d. That the removal of on-campus faculty housing which
entirely obsolete and which can be shown to be uneconomi
for further use be authorized. a

e. That the construction or purchase of multiple units only, f
the purpose of rental to:instructors and assistant professo
be authorized where this can be done as a mutual advantage
to.Synod and to the faculty personnel involved. —

f, That the present “building and loan” authorizations which
govern present faculty housing operations be made appli-
cable to Paragraphs c¢, d, and e of this resolution.