# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1009
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 311

Recommendations

As a result of the total study, the Board for Higher Education
s ready to present the following conclusions for the guidance of
ynod and for whatever progress toward efficient and unified pro-
edure might be achieved:

a. Recommended Organization

1) The Districts would continue to control the raising and
disbursing of funds for the student aid program. Their
specific duties would be to receive applications and pass
: upon the factor of need for financial assistance. The ad-
ministrative agency should be a committee responsible to
the District Board of Directors, one of the members of the
‘committee serving as principal executive.:
2) The colleges should be brought more actively into the
system. They should pass upon the scholarship of initial
applicants and students applying for continuation of aid.
They should be kept constantly informed on the District
aid activity in so far as it concerns the respective college.
They should publicize the opportunities under the District
aid program to needy applicants or enrolled students. They
should report regularly to the District upon the perform-
ance, character, and development of subsidized students.
They should render regular reports. to the central informa-
tion center for student aid.
3) Under the jurisdiction of the Board for Higher Educa-
tion, an extension of the office of the Executive Secretary
should be established. It would be the function of this
agency to receive reports from Districts and colleges on
the nature and activities of the student aid program, to
collect data at regular intervals, to prepare studies, and to
submit information to the Districts and colleges which would -
lead to uniformity of policies and standardization of prac-
tice. Periodic conferences of District student aid adminis-
trators should be called by this agency for a discussion of
mutual problems.

b. Recommended Policies

1) The official name of the program of District financial
assistance to professional students of the Church ought to
be: The Student Aid Fund’

2) The full extent of subsidy, within a maximum to be
prescribed, should be awarded only to students who have
reached the college level.

3) Assistance to high school students ought to be in amounts
proportionate to their level of advancement in the course of
training. A suggested arrangement would be: one fourth of
the maximum for each of the first two years of high school,
one half of the maximum for each of the last two years of
high school.

4) Subsidy should be available to qualified men students
preparing to become pastors, teachers, or medical mission-
aries. Graduate theological or teacher-training students
preparing themselves for church work should also be
eligible for aid.