# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1010
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812 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

5) Every applicant for assistance should be held to m
a minimum scholarship standard, such as B—. The colleg
would be responsible for the examination and approval off
the scholarship qualifications.

6) Every applicant for assistance should meet establish
criteria of financial need. The District committee wo
develop techniques for the determination of need in th
individual cases.

7) The principal condition of the award should be that th
recipient enter the service of the Church. Failure to do s6
for a period of time satisfactory to the Districts should re.
quire repayment of the grant. Satisfactory grade, deport
ment, and character reports shall be further required o!
supported students. Students should not be held to wor
off their grants in special service to the institution:

designated for “board and room” but for “general fees,”

9) Districts should make available unexpended funds to
applicants from other Districts where funds are exhausted
after September 1 of each year.

ce. Recommended. Action
The Board for Higher Education recommends:

That Synod supplement the undergraduate Student Aid
Funds of the Districts by the establishment of a $10,000 3
scholarship fund to assist qualified foreign students in Synod’s *
colleges and seminaries, to assist the sons and daughters of <
Synod’s foreign missionaries if they qualify for aid, and to
assist qualified persons in the pursuit of graduate studies
which will be of-direct benefit to the Church in its educa-_
tional program. ;

We recommend further

That such a Synodical Scholarship Fund be accumulated

by inviting each District of Synod to budget and to remit $250

_ or $500, as the District may elect, to Synod’s Treasurer during .@
the course of the District’s next fiscal year and in each sub-
sequent year.

We recommend further

That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to —
administer such scholarship funds on the basis of criteria
which it shall prepare and which shall become effective only
upon approval. of the synodical Praesidium and the District
. Presidents of Synod.

We recommend further

That at an early opportunity, preferably at a time when it
is meeting with its Advisory Council. (college presidents), the
Board for Higher. Education invite the District aid officers to
confer on these and other proposals for the improvement and
co-ordination of all student assistance efforts.