# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1038
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

340 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

For example: One of our colleges has a faculty of eleven*"™
called men. We find, in the annual reports, that five of the pro=
fessors are teaching, part time, for the State university; one of
them is doing some specialty writing for one of the local news-
papers; two serve as regular assistants in congregations; one has
a definite preaching schedule; and two report no additional work?"4
The President of the institution, of course, is totally unable ‘té4
supplement his income because he is forced to remain in constatit
contact with campus and administrative problems. A situation ‘of
this type is not in the interest of our vital ministerial and teacher-
training work. 4

Because past experience leads us to believe that it will not
be possible for the Fiscal Conference to see its way clear to accept
the necessary increase in the total educational budget without some
specific indication from Synod that it desires to see upward adjust-
ments in the salaries paid to our called professors and admin
istrators, the Board for Higher Education recommends

That Synod encourage and instruct the Fiscal Conference to,
give practical recognition to the need for increased salaries by;
accepting up to a 10% increase in the salary section of the budget
for higher education. THE Boarp ror HicHEer EpucaTIon
‘Problem of Salaries Paid to Professors, Instructors,

Pastors, and Teachers a,
(Unprinted Memorial 54) “we

Wuereas, The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States
Government figures show that living costs throughout our nation

have increased over 67 per cent since 1939; and oe
Wuereas, The professors and instructors at our seminaries and.
colleges and our pastors are receiving salaries generally much lower
than the professors and instructors and clergymen of other leading
Protestant denominations; and .
Wuereas, Our parochial school teachers are generally paid
salaries far below the State scale; and
Wuereas, Our professors and instructors and, pastors and
teachers are often at a disadvantage because of this condition “&
when meeting men of the State schools and churches of leading ““%
Protestant denominations about on an equal plane; and 4
Waereas, Salaries paid to men in positions of equal respon-
sibility in the business world are considerably higher than those
paid to the men whom we have put into responsible positions in
the work of the Church; therefore
We earnestly petition The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, 3