# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1034
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336 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

VII. Our faculty feels that this system has a tendency to
secularize our school and minimize the spiritual motivation for our 7
professors to put forth their best efforts in the service of God. *

VIII. Some professors object to the plan for the reason that 4
they have been called as full professors and that it is improper to
demote them to associate professors without just cause. !

IX. Accrediting agencies do not require ranking of professors
for the accreditation of junior colleges and high schools.

For all these reasons we earnestly petition Synod to return
to our old system of classifying all our permanently called teachers
in our junior colleges and high schools as professors and to elim- -
inate the distinction between associate professor and professor.

Facu.ty or Concorpia Cotece, St. Paun, Minn.

W. A. Porutsr, President
_ ArtTHurR C. Srreurert, Secretary

Unprinted Memorials

In this connection Committee 1 considered Unprinted Memo- “y

rials 32, 47, and 49 from some members of the faculties at Fort
Wayne, Winfield, and River Forest, supporting the above memorial.

. ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 12

WHEREAS, The new procedure of ranking the teaching personnel J

of our colleges and seminaries has been in operation for only five
months; and
Wuereas, This period of time is too short to evaluate the effec-

tiveness of the new procedure and to form intelligent judgment on _ a

the alleged weaknesses; therefore be it _

Resolved, a. That the established ranking procedures be re-
tained;

b, That the Board for Higher Education be instructed to carry
on a continuous evaluation of the outcome, so that retention, modi-
fication, or elimination dould be recommended at a future date on
the basis of the observed facts.

Assistance for Graduate Study
(Memorial 147)

Wuereas, The growing complexities of pastoral and educa-
tional work of today makes increasing demands on the professional
training of pastors and teachers; and .