# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1003
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 305

It must be understood that in authorizing local options it is not
tent of Synod to have available faculty campus housing un-
ied and, further, that this permissive legislation does not
jate the possibility of building on-campus housing under the
ditions now obtaining, when local conditions warrant.

ACTION
“Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 34

« Wnereas, The traditional policy of Synod of providing faculty

busing on the campuses of our colleges and seminaries has been

fnade difficult, and occasionally even impossible, during recent

ears; and

=». WHEREAS, It will be in the interest of Synod’s work to recognize
e need for flexibility in the policy on faculty housing, since some

culty people who now live in campus housing would prefer to

uy their own homes or to rent, while others who now rent would

tefer to live on the campus; therefore be it

Resolved, That the following paragraphs constitute the official
odical policy on faculty housing:

That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to
approve or decline (sale or lease or purchase being subject
to the consent of the Board of Directors of Synod and to the
present Handbook Section 2.791) any of the following local
options recommended by the Board of Control of the institu-
tion 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 is
entirely obsolete and which can be shown to be uneco-
nomical for further use be authorized.

e. That the construction or purchase of multiple units only,
for the purpose of rental to instructors and assistant pro-
fessors, 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.

Public Speaking
, In its Centennial Thankoffering, Synod established a fund to
:.. purchase “speech-laboratory equipment” for the improvement of
3. public speaking instruction at the colleges and seminaries. Acting