# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1040
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842 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Teachers College as adopted and ordered by the Delegate Con- ”

vention in Chicago in 1947.

We have been convinced that the innovations and changes have ° q
in general had a salutary and beneficial effect on the internal and a

external development of Synod’s professional training schools.
The Board of Control has also become conscious of the effect

of centering the responsibility for the administration of the college

in the office of the President under the so-called unit plan of

organization. This we regard as a very important and significant 4

step which makes possible many desirable changes in the operation
of collegiate institutions. This arrangement is in harmony with
the best practice in colleges and professional schools in our country,
and it promises to yield many desirable outcomes at our schools,

The Board of Control has also given thought to the matter
of corresponding remuneration of the Presidents of Synod’s col-
leges. The increased responsibility of the office of the President
under the unit-type organization and the consequent demand
for the highest type of administrator to fill the presidency has
caused us to prepare this memorial urging Synod to instruct its
Board for Higher Education to inaugurate a scale of pay for the
Presidents of the colleges and seminaries of Synod which reflects
more adequately the importance of the office.

Specifically, we recommend the standard ‘practice of setting.

the salary of the head of a college at about double the average
salary paid to the called or permanent members of the instructional
staff. At present our Presidents are paid less than many high
school principals, to say nothing of other junior college, college,

and seminary presidents.
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F. Wortumann, Secretary
ACTION
Upon recommendation of Committee 1, Synod resolved:

Resolution 32

Wuereas, The Presidents of our educational institutions carry
an additional responsibility, which until now has been recognized
by a slight salary differential but which has failed to take into
consideration certain expenses which come to the Presidents be-
cause of the office which they occupy; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod instruct the Board of Directors and the
Fiscal Conference to give practical recognition to this situation by
authorizing the Board for Higher Education to fix a definite
schedule of ani expense account to be paid the Presidents of our
educational institutions in accordance with the need of the respec-
tive institution.